Pensions
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- New initiative for Chinese pension schemes
- ( W. Zhang;D. Tang / HelpAge International , 2008)
- Baoji City is located in western Shaanxi, and is the second largest city in the province after Xi’an. It has a population of 3.76 million, 74 per cent of whom live in rural areas. The Baoji gove...
- The relationship between private and public saving
- ( K. van der Wiel / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2008)
- This paper discusses the relationship between public and private savings by analysing private pension scheme participation in the presence of such policy uncertainty. It assesses the influence of subj...
- Indexing social security taxes in the workers to beneficiaries ratio
- ( A.G. Biggs / American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research , 2008)
- This paper examines policies to index social security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors that impact s...
- Causes of the decline in defined benefits pension plans
- ( J.A. Turner;G. Hughes / Pensions Institute , 2008)
- Looking at the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, this report evaluates the causes of decline in defined pension benefit plans and the move toward defined contribution pension plans. Focusing...
- Assessing New Zealand's public pension system
- ( B. E. Kritzer / Social Security Online , 2007)
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Since 2007 New Zealanders have had a new option for their retirement savings, KiwiSaver, a type of subsidised, defined contribution retirement savings plan offered by private-sector providers. This...
- Many lack basic knowledge to help plan for long term financial security
- ( A. Lusardi / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2008)
- Over the past thirty years, individuals have had to become increasingly responsible for their own financial security following retirement. The shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (...
- The collapse of US housing market means vast majority of late baby boomers will retire with little wealth
- ( D. Baker;D. Rosnick / Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington , 2008)
- Traditionally, Americans envisioned workers’ income in retirement as a three-legged stool involving Social Security, a defined benefit pension and personal savings. In the last two decades, the ...
- Social protection in southern Africa: lessons from 20 case studies
- ( S. Devereux;F. Ellis;P. White / Wahenga.net, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
- This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Pro...
- There is still time to reform pension systems if governments act now
- ( J.P. Martin;E. Whitehouse / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2008)
- Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pensio...
- Taking life expectancy into account to protect pension schemes
- ( D. Blake;J. Pickles / Pensions Institute , 2008)
- This report has been prepared for finance directors of organisations with significant defined benefit (DB) pension liabilities. The authors argue that longevity risk - the risk that pension scheme mem...
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