George A. Mackenzie (Sandy)

The Decline of the Traditional Pension

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies developments in employer-provided pensions in ten industrial countries to explain the diminished importance of the traditional pension.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9780521518475
• ISBN-10: 0521518474
• Artikelnr.: 29984997

Autorenporträt

George A. (Sandy) Mackenzie is Strategic Policy Advisor in the Public Policy Institute of AARP in Washington, DC. A Rhodes Scholar, he spent 28 years with the International Monetary Fund (1978¿2006) following a year of teaching and three years with the Canadian Department of Finance. Prior to joining the AARP Public Policy Institute, he was a lecturer at the University of California Washington Center. In addition to his book Annuity Markets and Pension Reform (Cambridge, 2006), Mr Mackenzie has published articles in the IMF Staff Papers, Public Finance/Finances Publiques, Finanzarchiv, the IMF Occasional Papers series, and Public Budgeting and Finance, and studies with the Public Policy Institute of California and AARP PPI.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. The development of employer-provided pensions
2. The economics of occupational/employer-provided pension plans
3. Issues in funding and investing
4. Regulatory issues
5. Public sector employer-provided pensions and recent innovations in the first tier
Part II: 6. The causes of decline
7. Policies to address the decline of the traditional pension
8. Summary and conclusions
Appendix 1. Ten country profiles
Appendix 2. Mathematical treatments and derivations.