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Imagining The Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives, Dana M. Muir Editor, John A. Turner Editor Jan 2011

Imagining The Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives, Dana M. Muir Editor, John A. Turner Editor

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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.


The Transformation Of The American Pension System: Was It Beneficial For Workers?, Edward N. Wolff Jan 2011

The Transformation Of The American Pension System: Was It Beneficial For Workers?, Edward N. Wolff

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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.