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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Schieber, Sylvester J. (1946-....)
Titre(s) : The predictable surprise [Texte électronique] : the unraveling of the U.S. retirement system
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (477 pages)
Note(s) : Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers
are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst
shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber
shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement crisis have been apparent for decades,
but we have never mustered the political will to address the problem. This book explains
how we have gotten into the retirement predicament and where we can go from here.
Schieber, a renowned authority on this topic, provides a compact, insightful history
of.
Sujet(s) : Sécurité sociale -- États-Unis
Pensions de vieillesse -- États-Unis
Retraite -- Revenu -- États-Unis
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Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199890965
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42767681c
Notice n° :
FRBNF42767681
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Table des matières : Cover; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; PART
I. Foundations and Fault Lines; 1. Retirement USA; 2. Early Motivations behind the
Pension Movement; PART II. Social Security: The Dream and Reality; 3. Development
and Passage of the Social Security Act; 4. Early Concerns Prove Nagging and Persistent;
5. Moving to Pay-as-You-Go Financing; 6. A Deal Too Good to Last; 7. Operations under
Pay-as-You-Go Financing; 8. Crisis and Reactions: Conflict, Consensus and Surprise;
9. Sorting Out the Trust Fund Semantics and Realities.
10. Policy Stalemate at the Demographic Divide11. Understanding Social Security in
Modern Times; PART III. Employer-Based Pension Provision; 12. Employer Pensions Taking
Root; 13. Growing Pains for Private Retirement Plans; 14. ERISA. The Transition to
a New Regulatory Regime; 15. The 1980s: A Decade of Regulatory Schizophrenia; 16.
Good Intentions Gone Awry; 17. Some Good News ... or Not; 18. The Unfolding of a Predictable
Defined Benefit Surprise; 19. And Then, a Predictable Defined Contribution Surprise;
20. Public Pensions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
PART IV. Delivering Benefits and Providing Retirement Security21. Retirement Income
Security and Workers' Residuals; 22. End Game: A Gold Watch, Pat on the Back, and
More; 23. We've Killed the Goose, Let's Gild the Eggs; 24. Tax Benefits and Benefit
Taxes; 25. Retiree Health Benefits. Misfortune or Malpractice; PART V. Truth and Consequences;
26. The Fellow Behind the Tree; 27. Securing the Social Security Foundation; 28. Securing
Tax-Favored Benefits and Living Standards; 29. Remembering the Future; Glossary; Notes;
Index.
