February 2017

17Feb

Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth (World Bank Policy Research Report)

This policy-oriented book identifies the issues countries should consider as they reevaluate their old income security policies and formulate new methods. The choice between the various models for providing old-age security has broad implications for the operation of labor and capital markets, the fiscal system, and the level, growth, and distribution of GNP. The author concludes that a mixed strategy is more effective than any single method of income security. This will be an important book for international economists...

February 17, 2017
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17Feb

Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices

Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments have three elements: * Pension systems have multiple objectives--consumption smoothing, insurance, poverty relief, and redistribution. Good policy needs to bear them all in mind. * Good analysis should be...

February 17, 2017
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14Feb

The Future of Pension Management: Integrating Design, Governance, and Investing (Wiley Finance)

The Future of Pension Management offers a progress report from the field, using actual case studies from around the world. In the mid-70s, Peter Drucker predicted that demographic dynamics would eventually turn pensions into a major societal issue; in 2007, author Keith Ambachsheer's book Pension Revolution laid out the ways in which Drucker's predictions had come to pass. This book provides a fresh look at the situation on the ground, and details the encouraging changes that have taken place...

February 14, 2017
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14Feb

Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance (Pension Research Council Series)

Employees are being given more and more decisions to make with regards to their pension and healthcare plans. Yet increasing research in the social sciences shows that the decisions 'real' people make are not those of the thoughtful and well-informed economic agent often portrayed in economic research, but are often based on flawed information and made without a full understanding of their financial implications. The contributors to Pension Design and Structure explore the assumptions behind commonly-held theories of retirement decision-making,...

February 14, 2017
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14Feb

Pension Revolution: A Solution to the Pensions Crisis (Wiley Finance)

Praise for Pension Revolution "When Keith Ambachtsheer puts his keen mind to work on a problem, watch out! Here he exposes today's fragile arrangements for the most serious social dilemma of our times--financing retirement. Then he provides a compelling and powerful set of solutions. His writings are essential reading for all who care about the future of American living standards." --Peter Bernstein, founder and President, Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., and author of Capital Ideas and Against the Gods "This book describes one...

February 14, 2017
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14Feb

Old-Age Income Support in the 21st Century: An International Perspective on Pension Systems and Reform (Trade and Development)

The past decade has brought an increasing recognition to the importance of pension systems to the economic stability of nations and the security of their aging populations. During this time, the World Bank has taken a leading role in addressing this challenge through its support for pension reforms around the world. 'Old-Age Income Support in the 21st Century' attempts to explain current policy thinking and update the World Bank's perspective on pension reform. The Bank has been involved in pension...

February 14, 2017
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10Feb

Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality, and Economic Growth in Mexico

Despite various reform efforts, Mexico has experienced economic stability but little growth. Today more than half of all Mexican workers are employed informally, and one out of every four is poor. Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes argues that incoherent social programs significantly contribute to this state of affairs and it suggests reforms to improve the situation. Over the past decade, Mexico has channeled an increasing number of resources into subsidizing the creation of low-productivity, informal jobs. These social programs have...

February 10, 2017
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10Feb

OECD Pensions Outlook 2016: Edition 2016 (Volume 2016)

The Oecd Pensions Outlook 2016 assesses policy issues regarding strengthening pension systems and, in particular, funded pension plans. It covers defined benefits and defined contribution pension plans; fiscal incentives to save for retirement; policy measures to improve the financial advice for retirement; annuity products and their guarantees; pension design and financial education; and the pension arrangements for public-sector workers, including a comparison with those for private sector workers. Read more...

February 10, 2017
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10Feb

Pension and Employee Benefit Statutes and Regulations: Selected Sections (Selected Statutes)

This statutory pamphlet is compatible with all leading casebooks on pension and employee benefits law. It includes sections from the Internal Revenue Code, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Treasury Regulations, ADEA Regulations and ERISA Regulations. Read more...

February 10, 2017
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10Feb

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness [Expanded Edition]

By Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain in this important exploration of choice architecture, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad...

February 10, 2017
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