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The Transformation Of The American Pension System: Was It Beneficial For Workers?, Edward N. Wolff
The Transformation Of The American Pension System: Was It Beneficial For Workers?, Edward N. Wolff
Upjohn Press
The share of Americans with defined contribution pension plans now exceeds the share of those with defined benefit plans. Wolff refers to this as the "great transformation" and it leads him to examine recent evidence to see whether there are winners and losers resulting from this switch away from traditional pension plans.
A Primer On The History And Proper Drafting Of Qualified Domestic-Relations Orders, Terrence Cain
A Primer On The History And Proper Drafting Of Qualified Domestic-Relations Orders, Terrence Cain
Faculty Scholarship
The divorce rate in the United States is slightly more than one-half the marriage rate. Divorce is a fact of life in this country, and will likely be so for the foreseeable future. On August 23, 1984, the divorce lawyer’s job got more complicated when Congress created the Qualified Domestic Relations Order ("QDRO") as part of some significant amendments to ERISA. QDROs are necessary because before those 1984 ERISA amendments, a lot of divorced persons discovered that they could be deprived of their marital or community property interest in their former spouses' retirement plans. For most divorcing couples, the two …
Imagining The Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives, Dana M. Muir Editor, John A. Turner Editor
Imagining The Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives, Dana M. Muir Editor, John A. Turner Editor
Upjohn Press
Muir and Turner gather an international roster of pension experts who present what they think would be the ideal pension systems for their countries and why. Those countries include the United States, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, and Japan.