Some 13 million public-sector workers in the United States--including teachers, police and firefighters, state and municipal employees, judges, and legislators--and another six million federal and military employees participate in government pension plans. These pension systems are extraordinarily diverse in design, investment policy, and governance, and they face substantial challenges as the government-sector workforce ages and governments are asked to take on new and different tasks. Public employee pensions are in deep ...
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Some 13 million public-sector workers in the United States--including teachers, police and firefighters, state and municipal employees, judges, and legislators--and another six million federal and military employees participate in government pension plans. These pension systems are extraordinarily diverse in design, investment policy, and governance, and they face substantial challenges as the government-sector workforce ages and governments are asked to take on new and different tasks. Public employee pensions are in deep trouble in many countries, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well being. What can be done to help these programs perform more efficiently and enhance old-age security? From the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School, this volume takes stock of public pension developments in the US and Canada, highlighting challenges these financial institutions face in coming decades. The first Pension Research Council study of public pensions in a quarter of a century tackles these topics with an impressive team of international actuarial, legal, and economic experts.
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Very good in Very good jacket. viii, 393, [7] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. References. Contributors. Index. This work was associated with the Pension Research Council, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Olivia S. Mitchell (born 1953) is an economist and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests focus on pensions and social security, and she is the Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and research on retirement security. She heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research. Mitchell has published widely on pensions, social security, and retirement. Her work is highly regarded: in 2018, her paper was awarded the Best Paper Award on Behavioral Aspects of Insurance Mathematics, and in 2017 she received the Robert C Witt Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance; she also received the EBRI Lillywhite Award. "An essential reference tool for actuaries and others involved in government retirement systems. It also will provide insight to the general public regarding the ways tax dollars are being spent in this important arena."-The Actuarial Digest. Some 13 million public-sector workers in the United States and another six million federal and military employees participate in government pension plans. These systems are extraordinarily diverse in design, investment policy, and governance, and they face challenges as the government-sector workforce ages and governments take on new and different tasks. Public employee pensions are in trouble in many countries, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well being. This volume takes stock of public pension developments in the US and Canada, highlighting challenges the challenges institutions face. This study of public pensions tackles these topics with an impressive team of international actuarial, legal, and economic experts.
