For anyone with an interest in pensions—workers and employers,
personnel directors, accountants, actuaries, lawyers, insurance
agents, financial analysts, government officials, and social
scientists—this book is required reading. Now, without the aid of a
pension specialist, anyone can determine how their particular pension
plan stacks up against the average. Using virtually all available
government sources (including computerized data unavailable in print)
and their own extensive surveys, the authors present a comprehensive
description of the structural features and financial conditions of
U.S. private, state, city, and municipal pension plans. The
introductions to the hundreds of tables explain and highlight the
information. The picture that emerges of the "typical" plan and its
significant variations is crucial to all those with a financial stake
in pensions. The reader can compare pension vesting, retirement, and
benefit provisions by plan type, plan size, industry, union status,
and many more characteristics. With this information, workers can
evaluate just how generous their employer is; job applicants can
compare fringe benefits of prospective employers; personnel directors
can judge their competitive edge. The financial community will find
especially interesting the analysis of the unfunded liabilities of
private, state, and local pension funds. The investment decisions of
private and public pension funds and their return performances are
described as well. Government officials and social scientists will
find the analysis of pension coverage, the receipt of pension income
by the elderly, cost-of-living adjustments, and disability insurance
of special importance in evaluating the proper degree of public
intervention in the area of old age income support. Pensions in the
American Economy is comprehensive and easy to use. Every reader, from
small-business owners and civil servants to pension fund specialists,
will find in it essential information about this increasingly
important part of labor compensation and retirement finances.
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ISBN
9780226451480
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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