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Pensions in the Public Sector

Olivia S. Mitchell and Edwin C. Hustead,, Editors
Public employee pensions are in deep trouble in many countries, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well-being. What can be done to help them perform more efficiently and enhance old-age security? This volume takes stock of public pension developments in the US and Canada, highlighting challenges these financial institutions face in coming decades. The first Pension Research Council study of public pensions in a quarter-century tackles these topics with an impressive team of international actuarial, legal, and economic experts.

2001 · University of Pennsylvania Press · ISBN 0-8122-3578-9

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Download Table of Contents, Preface, Introduction [1MB PDF]
Chapter 1: Public Sector Pension Plans
[1.4MB PDF]
Edwin C. Hustead and Olivia S. Mitchell
Chapter 2: Developments in State and Local Pension Plans [3.8MB PDF · login required]
Olivia S. Mitchell, David McCarthy, Stanley C. Wisniewski, and Paul Zorn
Chapter 3: State Employee Pension Plans [3.1MB PDF · login required]
Karen Steffen
Chapter 4: Federal Civilian and Military Retirement Systems [4.8MB PDF · login required]
Edwin C. Hustead and Toni Hustead
Chapter 5: Canadian Public Sector Employee Pension Plans [1.7MB PDF · login required]
Silvana Pozzebon
Chapter 6: Regulation and Taxation of Public Plans [2MB PDF · login required]
Roderick B. Crane
Chapter 7: Governance and Investments of Public Pensions [2.9MB PDF · login required]
Michael Useem and David Hess
Chapter 8: Investment Practices of State and Local Pension Funds [4.9MB PDF · login required]
Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sunden with the assistance of Cynthia Perry and Ryan Kling
Chapter 9: Asset/Liability Management in the Public Sector [2.7MB PDF · login required]
Michael Peskin
Chapter 10: Determining the Cost of Public Pension Plans [3.2MB PDF · login required]
Edwin C. Hustead
Chapter 11: The Life and Times of a Public Sector Pension Plan Before Social Security [3.1MB PDF · login required]
Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, and Jack W. Wilson
Chapter 12: Going Private in the Public Sector [2.6MB PDF · login required]
Douglas Fore
Chapter 13: Florida's Public Pension Reform Debate [3MB PDF · login required]
Kenneth Trager, James Francis, and Kevin SigRist
Chapter 14: Pension Governance in the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System [2.2MB PDF · login required]
John Brosius
Chapter 15: The New Jersey Pension System [3.1MB PDF · login required]
Tom Bryan
Chapter 16: Public Pensions in Washington, D.C. [1.5MB PDF · login required]
Edwin C. Hustead
Chapter 17: Public Pension Design and Responses to a Changing Workforce [1.9MB PDF · login required]
Cathie Eitelberg
Contributors, Index [2.4MB PDF · login required]

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