Regulating private pension funds’ structure, performance and investments: cross-country evidence [PDF]
A number of countries have introduced individual, privately managed defined-contribution accounts, where the value of the pension benefit will depend on accumulated contributions and investment returns.
Yermo, Juan +2 more
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Back to the drawing board: The economic crisis and its implications for pension provision in the United Kingdom [PDF]
This paper focuses on an issue, which so far has received relatively little attention by policy makers and the media, namely that the economic crisis has highlighted inherent weaknesses in existing pension systems in many countries.
Eich, Frank, Swarup, Amarendra
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Civil-service pension schemes around the world [PDF]
There are separate pension schemes for civil servants (and often for other public-sector workers) in about half of the world’s countries, including some of the largest developing economies, such as Brazil, China and India.
Whitehouse, Edward, Palacios, Robert
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Is Pension Inequality Growing? [PDF]
Employer-sponsored pensions are an important source of retirement income and often make the difference between having a comfortable retirement and just scraping by. Over the past two decades, pension sponsorship and participation have remained relatively
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Nadia Karamcheva
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The gender wealth gap and the role of private pension wealth in Great Britain. [PDF]
Rev Econ HousehNolan B, Palomino JC.
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Financial markets trend: ageing and pension system reform [PDF]
Ageing have prompted important changes in the structure of pension system with substantial differences across the most developed countries. Given that ageing populations are driving a growing need for private form of saving for retirement, the pension ...
Panetta, Ida Claudia
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The structure, regulation, and performance of pension funds in nine industrial countries [PDF]
The author offers an overview of issues relating to the development of funded pension schemes in industrial countries. The analysis applies the economic theory of pension regulation to experience with the structure, regulation, and performance of funds ...
Davis, E.P., DEC
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Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [PDF]
This paper examines the economic rationale for, historical experience of, and current pressures facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
Jeffrey R. Brown
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Betting on a long life: The role of subjective life expectancy in the demand for private pension insurance of german households [PDF]
With a view to investigating the presence of adverse selection, we analyze determinants of private pension insurance uptake of German households in a probit model.
Schulte, Katharina, Zirpel, Ulrike
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Do Private Pensions Increase National Saving? [PDF]
This paper discusses how private pension programs differ from public social security in their likely impact on aggregate saving. Although private pensions are likely to reduce direct saving by employees, this should be offset by the combination of ...
Martin Feldstein
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