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Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth (Pension Research Council Publications)

1 review

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000

Thinking about Retirement? Read This First!
"Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth" is a collection of research papers using the first (1992) wave of the biennial Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to paint a picture of the financial health of the soon to be retiring pre-baby-boom generation. Each of these papers focussed on a different specific issue affecting those approaching retirement. Like a cookbook, where a few good ...

Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

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 ...

The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security

5 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

The Pension Challenge
The publication of this book is timely insofar as it explores ways of enhancing retirement security in the volatile financial environment many employees find themselves in. It is the first in a new series produced by the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with Oxford University Press.

Prospects for Social Security Reform (Pension Research Council Publications)

1 review
Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert J. Myers

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

Excellent Overview
While the book provides an excellent background and a good assessment of likely options, it glossed over some considered politically unfeasible but which might be popular among the voters - for example, removing the cap on Social Security wages. It is clear the financial markets are dying to get their hands on the money. At the same time, most in the investment community don't want to create ...

Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare?

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

As the leading edge of the "Baby Boom" generation attains age 60, members of this unusually large cohort born 1946-66 are poised to redefine retirement--just as they have restructured educational, housing, and labor markets in prior days. Looking ahead, their numbers and energy are sure to have a major impact on national pensions, healthcare, and social safety nets. Contributors to this volume note that "Boomers" will be better off than their ...

Living with Defined Contribution Pensions (Pension Research Council Publications)

1 review

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

Review of Living with Defined Contribution Pensions
Reviewed in Journal of Financial Service Professionals - 01/01/2000: Individuals serious about understanding the personal, corporate, and societal impacts of the shift toward defined contribution pensions should read Olivia Mitchell and Sylvester Schieber's Living with Defined Contribution Pensions: Remaking Responsibility for Retirement. The book is a compilation of the work of today's ...

The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement

2 reviews
Jeffrey R. Brown, Olivia S. Mitchell, ...

The MIT Press, 2001

Annuity
Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that people must plan their retirements on the assumption that they will live into their eighties, their nineties, or even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on their living standards or risk living so long that ...

Recalibrating Retirement Spending and Saving

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

As Baby Boomers make the transition into their 60s, they have focused policymakers and the media's attention onto how this generation will manage the retirement phase of its lifetime. This volume acknowledges that many, though not all, in this older cohort have accumulated substantial assets, so for them, the question is what will they do with what they have? We offer a detailed exploration of how people entering retirement will deploy their ...

Pensions in the Public Sector (Pension Research Council Publications)

4 reviews

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000

Publisher's Comment
What can be done to help public sector pension plans perform more efficiently, and thereby enhance old-age security? In much of the world, public sector pensions are in deep trouble, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well being. By and large, North American public pension systems have performed better, boasting tremendous assets and offering reasonable retiree benefits. Even ...

Benefits for the Workplace of the Future (Pension Research Council Publications)

2 reviews
Olivia S. Mitchell, David S. Blitzstein

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

Benefits for the Workplace of the Future
From Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University (July 2004): "The essays in this volume examine how benefits and compensation packages will respond to the need for economic restructuring, demographic shifts and changes in the role of government versus private sector. The chapters in the first section deal with developments in the future workplace and ...

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