The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems

ISBN: 9780199573349 出版年：2010 页码：365 Oxford University Press

1. The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems PART I: COSTS AND BENEFITS OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS 2. Estimating State and Local Government Pension and Retiree Health Care Liabilities 3. The Case for Marking Public Plan Liabilities to Market 4. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Improving the Cost Effectiveness of Public Pension Retirement Plans 5. Public Pensions and State and Local Budgets: Can Contribution Rate Cyclicality Be Better Managed? 6. Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private Industry Employers 7. Administrative Costs of State Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems 8. Thinking About Funding Federal Retirement Plans PART II: IMPLEMENTING PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM REFORM 9. Reforming the German Civil Servant Pension Plan 10. The Outlook for Canada's Public Sector Employee Pensions 11. Unifying Pension Schemes in Japan: Toward a Single Scheme for Both Civil Servants and Private Employees 12. Redefining Traditional Plans: Variations and Developments in Public Employee Retirement Plan Design 13. Defined Contribution Pension Plans in the Public Sector: A Benchmark Analysis PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC PENSIONS 14. The Evolution of Public Sector Pension Plans in the United States 15. Pension Fund Activism: The Double-Edged Sword 16. The New Intersection on the Road to Retirement: Public Pensions, Economics, Perceptions, Politics, and Interest Groups