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Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions

Turner, John A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Turner identifies the current problems facing pension policy for U.S. employer-provided pension plans and recommends solutions to those problems based on his examination of pension systems in other industrialized nations.

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POVERTY AND INCOME MAINTENANCE IN OLD AGE: A CROSS-NATIONAL VIEW OF LOW INCOME OLDER WOMEN / GROWING OLD IN THE US: GENDER AND INCOME ADEQUACY / GENDER AND AGING IN SOUTH KOREA

Stark, Agneta; Folbre, Nancy; Shaw, Lois; Smeeding, Timothy - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 2, pp. 163-197

The contributions in this Explorations section reveal differences across countries in the support systems of the elderly and shows that poverty among the elderly has not been eliminated, even in rich countries. Social insurance systems with an adequate minimum benefit do the best job of avoiding...

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Government mandated private pensions: a dependable foundation for retirement security?

Pecchenino, Rowena A.; Pollard, Patricia S. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2001

We develop a model of an overlapping generations economy characterized by private pensions where risk averse agents … a result of differences in the costs of administering pension funds. Thus, identical agents' pensions may yield …

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Aging Populations and Public Pension Schemes

Chand, Sheetal K.; Jaeger, Albert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1996

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Switzerland; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper attempts to quantify the impact of the demographic shift on growth and public finances in Switzerland. It examines the intertemporal consistency between current policy plans and unfunded liabilities, focusing primarily on social security, and explores policy options....

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Alternative Social Security Systems in CIS Countries

Ahmad, Ehtisham; Schneider, Jean-Luc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993

In the USSR in 1990, social security reforms led to the imposition of a uniform system of benefits in a large and demographically diverse country. This required inter-regional transfers, which are now no longer feasible with the demise of the USSR. Relatively high contribution rates also pose a...

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The Limits of Market-Based Risk Transfer and Implications for Managing Systemic Risks

Blancher, Nicolas R.; Haas, François; Kiff, John; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The paper discusses the limits to market-based risk transfer in the financial system and the implications for the management of systemic long-term financial risks. Financial instruments or markets to transfer and better manage these risks across institutions and sectors are, as yet, either...

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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Macroeconomic Impact of An Aging Population in a Highly Open Economy

Leigh, Lamin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Hong Kong SAR's population is aging rapidly. This paper concludes that, without a change in policies, aging could adversely affect growth and living standards. While higher labor productivity growth and increased migration of younger skilled workers from the Chinese mainland, would attenuate the...

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Policy effects in hyperbolic vs. exponential models of consumption and retirement

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 5, pp. 465-473

This paper constructs a structural retirement model with hyperbolic preferences and uses it to estimate the effect of … substantial amounts of wealth for retirement. We find it is frequently difficult to distinguish empirically between models with … the two types of preferences on the basis of asset accumulation paths or consumption paths around the period of retirement …

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On the record: Baby boomers face a changing retirement landscape: a conversation with Anil Kumar

Kumar, Anil - In: Southwest Economy (2010) Q4, pp. 8-9

Many baby boom era workers, those born between 1946 and 1962, count on various retirement benefits accumulated during … Anil Kumar discusses the retirement outlook for baby boomers and growth of 401(k)-type retirement accounts. …

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