Research Catalog

Title

Retirement policy issues in Canada / edited by Michael G. Abbott ... [et al.].

Publication

Kingston, Ont. : John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University, [2009]

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Additional Authors

• Abbott, Michael G.
• John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy.

Description

x, 473 p. : charts, map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Retirement > Government policy > Canada
• Pensions > Government policy > Canada
• Retirement income > Canada
• Retirement > Canada
• Retraite > Politique gouvernementale > Canada
• Pensions > Politique gouvernmentale > Canada
• Revenu de retraite > Canada
• Retraite > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Michael G. Abbott, Charles M. Beach, Robin W. Boadway and James G. MacKinnon -- Ch. I. Policy Concerns -- US Fiscal Gap and its Troubling Implications / Laurence J. Kotlikoff -- Pensions Are a Risky Business: Issues in Pension Regulation / David Dodge -- Ch. II. Background Issues and the Pension Environment -- Retirement in Canada: Some Trends ... Some Issues / Cliff Halliwell -- Income Security and Stability During Retirement in Canada / Sebastien LaRochelle-Cote, John Myles and Garnett Picot -- Distribution of Seniors' Income in Canada / Michael R. Veall -- Pension Reform in Canada: Getting from Denial to Acceptance / William B.P. Robson -- Ch. III. Policy Levers and the Retirement Process -- Incentives for Early Retirement in Canada's Defined-Benefit Public and Private Pension Plans: An Analysis with a Dynamic Life-Cycle CGE Model / Maxime Fougere, Simon Harvey, Yu Lan, Andre Leonard and Bruno Rainville --^
• Personal Accounts, Changing Defaults, and Retirement Saving in the United Kingdom: Are there Lessons for Canadian Pension Policy? / Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow -- Ch. IV. Panel on Replacement Rates and Design Features of Workplace Pension Plans -- Retirement Income Replacement Rates: Responding to Changing Attitudes and Needs / Peter Drake and Colin Randall -- Design Features, Strengths, and Limitations of Defined-Benefit Plans / Stephen Bonnar -- Defined-Contribution Plans in Canada and Possible Design Improvements / Dave McLellan -- Recent Legal Decisions and Regulatory Changes and their Implications for Design Structure of Pension Plans / Marcel Theroux -- Ch. V. Retirement Process and Macroeconomic Implications -- Emergence of Phased Retirement: Economic Implications and Policy Concerns / Robert L. Clark -- Some Macroeconomic Effects of Population Aging on Productivity Growth and Living Standards / William Scarth --^
• Remain, Retrain or Retire: Options for Older Workers Following Job Loss / Christine Neill and Tammy Schirle -- Ch. VI. Panel on Risk and Pension Investment Strategies -- Longevity Risk and How to Manage It Effectively / Malcolm Hamilton -- Pension Plan Investment Strategies by Major Pension Plans in Canada / Sterling Gunn -- Managing Investment Risks Over the Long-Term / Graham Pugh -- Ch. VII. Pension Rules and Retirement -- Working While Receiving a Pension: Will Double Dipping Change the Elderly Labour Market? / Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- Mandatory Retirement and Incentives in University Defined-Benefit Pension Plans / John Burbidge and Katherine Cuff -- CPP Sustainability: A Stochastic Liability Model Analysis / Rick Egelton and Steven James -- Ch. VIII. Mandatory Retirement and the Changing Prospects of Retirement -- Mandatory Retirement: Myths, Myths and More Damn Myths / Rafael Gomez and Morley Gunderson --^
• Retirement Prospects of Immigrants: Will it Require a New Social Contract? / Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson -- Mandatory Retirement Rules and the Earnings of University Professors in Canada / Casey Warman and Christopher Worswick.

ISBN

• 9781553391623 (bound)
• 9781553391616 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009512122

OCLC

277067336

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library