The future of public employee retirement systems / edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Gary Anderson.
"People covered by public pensions are often the subject of 'pension envy:' that is, their benefits might seem more generous and their contributions lower than those offered by the private sector. Yet this book points out that such judgments are often inaccurate, since civil servants...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems / Olivia S. Mitchell
- Part I. Costs and Benefits of Public Employee Retirement Systems
- 2. Estimating State and Local Government Pension and Retiree Health Care Liabilities / Stephen T. McElhaney
- 3. The Case for Marking Public Plan Liabilities to Market / Jeremy Gold and Gordon Latter
- 4. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Improving the Cost Effectiveness of Public Pension Retirement Plans / M. Barton Waring
- 5. Public Pensions and State and Local Budgets: Can Contribution Rate Cyclicality Be Better Managed? / Parry Young
- 6. Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private Industry Employers / Ken McDonnell
- 7. Administrative Costs of State Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems / Edwin C. Hustead
- 8. Thinking About Funding Federal Retirement Plans / Toni Hustead
- Part II. Implementing Public Retirement System Reform
- 9. Reforming the German Civil Servant Pension Plan / Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla
- 10. The Outlook for Canada's Public Sector Employee Pensions / Silvana Pozzebon
- 11. Unifying Pension Schemes in Japan: Toward a Single Scheme for Both Civil Servants and Private Employees / Junichi Sakamoto
- 12. Redefining Traditional Plans: Variations and Developments in Public Employee Retirement Plan Design / Keith Brainard
- 13. Defined Contribution Pension Plans in the Public Sector: A Benchmark Analysis / Roderick B. Crane, Michael Heller, and Paul J. Yakoboski
- Part III. The Political Economy of Public Pensions
- 14. The Evolution of Public Sector Pension Plans in the United States / Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, and Neveen Ahmed
- 15. Pension Fund Activism: The Double-Edged Sword / Brad M. Barber
- 16. The New Intersection on the Road to Retirement: Public Pensions, Economics, Perceptions, Politics, and Interest Groups / Beth Almeida, Kelly Kenneally, and David Madland.