Stephen J. Kay / Tapen Sinha (eds.)

Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas

Herausgeber: Kay, Stephen J; Sinha, Tapen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Latin America has seen a host of pathbreaking pension reforms, including privatizations that have served as examples for governments throughout the world. Addressing pressing policy issues and highlighting a broad range of country experiences, this book provides an unparalleled account of the lessons from pension reform in North and South America

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1166g
• ISBN-13: 9780199226801
• ISBN-10: 0199226806
• Artikelnr.: 23344427

Autorenporträt

Stephen Kay is the coordinator of Latin America analysis in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Research Department and coordinator of the Bank's Americas Center. His articles on pension reform in Latin America have appeared in Comparative Politics, Economic Review, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, and the International Social Security Review. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Tapen Sinha is the ING Chair Professor at ITAM, Mexico, the founder and director of International Center for Pension Research, Special Professor, University of Nottingham, UK, Research Associate, Centre for Risk and Insurance, University of Nottingham, UK, Senior Advisor, Cranes Software Inc. Dr. Sinha has published over 110 papers and has authored or edited eight books. He has presented papers in more than 200 conferences in all continents of the globe. He has a BStat in Statistics and MStat in Econometrics from the Indian Statistical Institute. He has a doctorate in Financial Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: Toward an Era of Longevity and Wealth
* 1: Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha: Overview: Lessons from Pension
Reform in the Americas
* Part I: System Design and Policy Implications
* 2: Alberto Arenas de Mesa, David Bravo, Jere R. Behrman, Olivia S.
Mitchell, and Petra E. Todd: The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25:
Lessons from the Social Protection Survey
* 3: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C.
Madrian: The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving
Outcomes: Evidence from the United States
* 4: Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards, and Rebeca Wong: The Gender
Impact of Social Security Reform in Latin America
* 5: Michelle Dion: Understanding the Gendered Dimensions of Pension
Reform
* 6: Robert Holzmann, Estelle James, and Truman Packard: Reflections on
Pension Reform in the Americas: From "Averting the Old-Age Crisis" to
"Keeping the Promise of Old-Age Security" and Beyond
* 7: Kurt Weyland: Bounded Rationality in Latin American Pension Reform
* Part II: Country Studies
* 8: John F. Cogan and Olivia S. Mitchell: Perspectives from the
President's Commission on Social Security Reform
* 9: Robert Brown: Reforms to Canadian Social Security, 1996/97
* 10: Tapen Sinha and Maria De Los Angeles Yañez: A Decade of
Government Mandated Privately Run Pensions in Mexico: What Have We
Learned?
* 11: Milko Matijascic and Stephen J. Kay: Pensions in Brazil: Reaching
the Limits of Parametric Reform in Latin America
* 12: Juliana Martínez Franzoni: Costa Rica's Pension Reform: A Decade
of Negotiated Incremental Change
* 13: Eduardo Morón and Eliana Carranza: The Peruvian Pension Reform:
Ailing or Failing?
* 14: Rodolfo Saldain: Uruguay: A Mixed Reform
* 15: Rafael Rofman: The Pension System in Argentina
* 16: Olivia Mitchell: Epilogue: The Future of Retirement Systems in
the Americas