Book Description
Explores the potential benefits of a government-independent, democratized Social Security system to support dependents suffering from the reduction of other government benefits.
Author : Eric Laursen
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849351015
Explores the potential benefits of a government-independent, democratized Social Security system to support dependents suffering from the reduction of other government benefits.
Author : Gregg McClymont
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786612854
This book weighs the experiences of eight nations across the Americas, Asia and Europe on the development of pensions processes.
Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780101873727
This Government is proposing to introduce a system of automatic pensions transfers to help people to better keep track of their workplace pension savings. The majority of people being automatically enrolled are likely to join the default fund in defined contribution (DC) schemes. It is, therefore, important to ensure that these schemes deliver the best possible value for money. The impact of the charges levied on people's pensions savings over their lifetime can be significant - seemingly small variations in charges can result in a considerable difference in people's final retirement savings. A number of voluntary industry initiatives seeking to improve disclosure of charges information to scheme members and employers have been launched in an effort to reduce the complexity of the product. The Government welcomes these initiatives, but is interested in views on whether further action is required. There are a number of potential options: mandating disclosure to members by widening the disclosure requirements, to include information about charges; standardising disclosure to employers; or disclosure of transaction costs - require disclosure to members, employers, as well as trustees, and independent governance committees (as recommended by the OFT). The Government is also interested in hearing views on whether: a cap on pension scheme charges should be introduced; differential charging between active and deferred members should be banned in DC qualifying schemes; the ban on consultancy charges should be extended from AE schemes to all qualifying DC schemes; adviser commissions set up prior to the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review should be banned in qualifying schemes
Author : Adam Jolly
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 074946755X
From Autumn 2012, all UK employers will be expected to start offering a pension to any employee who earns more than £5,000. This compulsory measure has far-reaching consequences for all players: not only will many new pension customers be brought into the market, but companies face strict deadlines and major fines if they do not comply. The Handbook of Work-based Pension Schemes takes a practical approach to the many issues and crucial decisions now facing employers. Choose the right course of action and pensions can become a powerful incentive for employees, but make a mistake and the consequences can be far-reaching and expensive. Published in association with the Institute of Directors, the book is designed to ensure that this new pensions system fulfills its promise to both employers and employees.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Norway
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Author : Robert Holzmann
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821353585
The need for pension reform is an increasingly important issue on the economic reform agenda of most European countries, although there has been considerable variation in the approaches adopted. This publication contains a selection of papers from leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of economics and political science, which seek to provide an insight into the process and progress of European pension reform and to highlight areas for further research.
Author : Robert K. Schaeffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100043303X
In the 1980s, U.S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street, which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared, corporate managers consolidated businesses, outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries, and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change. These developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile, tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich, and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. During the decades that followed, globalization triggered regional economic crises, toppled governments, transformed societies, galvanized economic development in China, and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008, a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession, wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy, and unleashed populist or "restrictionist" social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s, the developments that triggered the Great Recession, and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what happened—and what comes next.
Author : M. Seeleib-Kaiser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230227392
This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private' domain within the mixed economies of welfare. Various modes of policy intervention are investigated, providing a nuanced account of reforms in the past decade.
Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195039564
A unique comparative examination of the different ways in which modern democratic societies provide welfare today, with special attention to the US, Japan, Britain, Scandinavia, West Germany, and Israel.