Employee pensions : policies, problems, and possibilities / edited by Teresa Ghilarducci and Christian E. Weller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghilarducci, Teresa.

Weller, Christian E., 1966-

Labor and Employment Relations Association.

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Labor and Employment Relations Association series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old age pensions--United States.

Old age pensions.

United States.

Pensions--United States.

Pensions.

Physical Description:

iv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign, IL : Labor and Employment Relations Association, [2007]

Summary:

This volume outlines a fresh view on pension plans from the perspective of both the employer and employee, describing the possibilities in American labor relations and in Congress to meet employers' needs to compete and to fulfill the enduring desire of workers to plan for a financially secure period of leisure at the end of their working lives. The authors examine the advantages to employers from sponsoring a defined benefit plan and focus on ways to stabilize defined benefit plan coverage. They also look into the need for changes in regulations governing defined contribution plans, offering a number of innovative policy solutions. Finally, they provide insight into the political and institutional constraints that may impede the creation of new pension legislation that could help to strengthen defined benefit plans and improve defined contribution plans.

Contents:

Issues still facing employer-based pensions : introduction to the volume / Teresa Ghilarducci and Christian E. Weller

The labor supply effects of employer-provided pensions : theory, evidence, and implications for the future / Jeffrey B. Wenger and Laura P. D'Arcy

Economic institutional change and employer pensions / William Lazonick

Partial retirement : widespread desire among workers, but limited demand by employers / Sharon Hermes

Tales of the Dodo bird and the Yellowstone wolf : lessons for DB pensions and the retirement ecosystem / Sylvester J. Schieber

Multi-employer plans : plan design for the future / Beth Almeida

How can defined contribution plans meet workers' needs? / Eric Rodriguez and Luisa Grillo-Chope

Putting annuities back into savings plans / Pamela Perun

U.S. federal pension policy : its potential and pitfalls / Michele Varnhagen

The politics of pension cuts / David Madland

Pension policy options : meeting in the middle / Christian E. Weller and Teresa Ghilarducci.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0913447951

9780913447956

OCLC:

154706613

Publisher Number:

99944055713