US Pension Reform
, by Baily, Martin NeilNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780881324259 | 0881324256
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/2008
Analyzes social pension reforms of twelve other countries, assesses the current US Social Security program, and evaluates opportunities for adaption of current system.
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration and one of three members of the council from '94 to '96. Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute (2001-2007) and current senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Academic advisor to the Congressional Budget Office and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Lessons from the World | p. 1 |
Structure of the Book | p. 6 |
Key Findings | p. 8 |
Policy Implications | p. 22 |
Reference | p. 30 |
Fiscal and Demographic Challenges | p. 31 |
Assessing Countries' "Fiscal Starting Point" | p. 32 |
True Cost of Public Pensions Today | p. 42 |
Value of the 'Pension Promise" | p. 55 |
The Demographic Outlook | p. 64 |
Understanding the Impact of Looking at Effective Retirement Ages | p. 78 |
Synthesis of Fiscal and Demographic Challenges | p. 85 |
References | p. 91 |
Pension Data in Detail | p. 95 |
Methodological Assumptions for OECD Pension Modeling | p. 101 |
Why the Decline in the Number of Children Is Unlikely to Help Offset the Public Expenditure Levels in Most OECD Countries | p. 104 |
The Distributional Challenge | p. 107 |
The Two Philosophies of Pension Provision: Universality versus Insurance | p. 109 |
How Well Do Different Pension Systems Alleviate Old Age Poverty | p. 121 |
Intergenerational Transfers | p. 137 |
Average National Retirement Ages and Differing Life Expectancies-A Distributional Issue in National Pension Systems? | p. 166 |
A Closer Look at the Distributional Effects of Public Pensions | p. 174 |
State and Local Government Accounting and Retirement Finances | p. 185 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 195 |
References | p. 197 |
Data and Definitions | p. 205 |
p. 212 | |
The Employment Incentive Challenge for Aging Populations | p. 121 |
Economic Dependency Ratios Going Forward-Some Countries Will Have to Act | p. 122 |
A Closer Look at Employment Rates for Older Workers | p. 228 |
Most OECD Older Workers Will Be Better Educated in the Future | p. 246 |
Why Do People Withdraw Early from the Workforce? | p. 251 |
The Retirement Decision | p. 256 |
Phased Retirement Option | p. 268 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 269 |
Reference | p. 270 |
Exorcising the "Lump-of-Labor" Ghost One More (Last?) Time | p. 273 |
Individual Accounts | p. 277 |
The Context in Support of Individual Accounts | p. 278 |
Disadvantages of Individual Accounts | p. 279 |
Structures and Brief Histories of Selected Countries' Individual Accounts | p. 282 |
Participation/Contribution Density | p. 291 |
Administrative Costs and Fees | p. 298 |
Elderly Poverty and Replacement Rates | p. 301 |
Financing the Transition and Effects on National Saving | p. 309 |
Overall Conclusions | p. 313 |
Reference | p. 316 |
National or Nonfinancial Individual Accounts | p. 321 |
Notional Accounts in Sweden | p. 323 |
Notional Accounts in Other Countries | p. 334 |
US Proposals to Establish Private Accounts | p. 338 |
Conclusions | p. 344 |
Reference | p. 345 |
Challenges to Corporate Pension Provision | p. 347 |
"Good Old Days" Revisited-How Extensive Was the US Corporate Welfare State? | p. 348 |
Recent and Current Corporate Pension Provision | p. 363 |
Why the Switch from Defined Benefit Pension Plans? | p. 381 |
Choice of Corporate Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution/Hybrid Pension Provision in the OECD | p. 405 |
Recent Trends in Corporate Pension Provision in Other OECD Countries | p. 408 |
Summary of the Challenges | p. 431 |
Reference | p. 437 |
An Accounting Standards Arbitrage: How the French Government Took Over the Pension Liabilities of Electricité de France and Made Billions | p. 443 |
Conclusion | p. 449 |
Targeted Benefit Adjustments to Deal with the Fiscal Shortfall | p. 451 |
Adjusting the Retirement Age | p. 469 |
Increasing Revenues for the Social Security System | p. 471 |
Add-On Program of Individual Accounts | p. 471 |
Timing the Reform of Social Security and Automatic Balancing Mechanisms | p. 474 |
Reference | p. 481 |
Abbreviations | p. 483 |
Index | p. 487 |
Tables | |
Tax and Social Security treatment of benefits, 2003 | p. 46 |
OECD typology of pension systems | p. 61 |
Synthesis of selected OECD countries' fiscal and demographic challenges | p. 86 |
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