Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice

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© 1985
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Overview
David A. Wise
2. Pensions and the Labor Market: A Starting Point (The Mouse Can Roar)
David T. Ellwood
Comment: Zvi Bodie
3. Labor Compensation and the Structure of Private Pension Plans: Evidence for Contractual versus Spot Labor Markets
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
David A. Wise
Comment: Zvi Bodie
4. Unions, Pensions, and Union Pension Funds
Richard B. Freeman
Comment: Albert Rees
5. Determinants of Pension Benefits
Paul Taubman
Comment: Victor R. Fuchs
6. Social Security, Health Status, and Retirement
Jerry A. Hausman
David A. Wise
Comment: Gary Burtless
7. The Distributional Impact of Social Security
Michael D. Hurd
John B. Shoven
Comment: Henry J. Aaron
8. The Structure of Uncertainty and the Use of Nontransferable Pensions as a Mobility-Reduction Device
W. Kip Viscusi
Comment: Sherwin Rosen
9. Incentive Effects of Pensions
Edward P. Lazear
Comment: Roger H. Gordon
10. Pensions and the Retirement Decision
Barry Nalebuff
Richard J. Zeckhauser
11. Insurance Aspects of Pensions
Peter A. Diamond
James A. Mirrlees
Comment: Robert C. Merton
12. The Riskiness of Private Pensions
Jerry R. Green
Comment: Alan J. Auerbach
13. The Relationship between Wages and Benefits
Jeremy Bulow
Wayne Landsman
Comment: Daniel Feenberg
14. The Federal Civil Service Retirement System: An Analysis of Its Financial Condition and Current Reform Proposals
Herman B. Leonard
Comment: Paul A. Samuelson
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
1. Overview
David A. Wise
2. Pensions and the Labor Market: A Starting Point (The Mouse Can Roar)
David T. Ellwood
Comment: Zvi Bodie
3. Labor Compensation and the Structure of Private Pension Plans: Evidence for Contractual versus Spot Labor Markets
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
David A. Wise
Comment: Zvi Bodie
4. Unions, Pensions, and Union Pension Funds
Richard B. Freeman
Comment: Albert Rees
5. Determinants of Pension Benefits
Paul Taubman
Comment: Victor R. Fuchs
6. Social Security, Health Status, and Retirement
Jerry A. Hausman
David A. Wise
Comment: Gary Burtless
7. The Distributional Impact of Social Security
Michael D. Hurd
John B. Shoven
Comment: Henry J. Aaron
8. The Structure of Uncertainty and the Use of Nontransferable Pensions as a Mobility-Reduction Device
W. Kip Viscusi
Comment: Sherwin Rosen
9. Incentive Effects of Pensions
Edward P. Lazear
Comment: Roger H. Gordon
10. Pensions and the Retirement Decision
Barry Nalebuff
Richard J. Zeckhauser
11. Insurance Aspects of Pensions
Peter A. Diamond
James A. Mirrlees
Comment: Robert C. Merton
12. The Riskiness of Private Pensions
Jerry R. Green
Comment: Alan J. Auerbach
13. The Relationship between Wages and Benefits
Jeremy Bulow
Wayne Landsman
Comment: Daniel Feenberg
14. The Federal Civil Service Retirement System: An Analysis of Its Financial Condition and Current Reform Proposals
Herman B. Leonard
Comment: Paul A. Samuelson
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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