The Pension Research Council at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania sponsors research on pensions and other employee benefit plans, private as well as public. Books in the PRC Publications series aim to broaden both professional and public understanding of these complex arrangements by exploring their social, economic, legal, actuarial, and financial foundations. The series is closed to new submissions.
Retirement Policy and Practice in Higher Education
Edited by Robert L. Clark and P. Brett Hammond
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812235722
Pub Date: November 2000
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
What impact has the end of mandatory retirement had on colleges and universities as well as on the academic job market? From the Wharton School, To Retire or Not? outlines the critical issues associated with faculty aging, retirement policy, and human resource needs in higher education over the next decades.
From the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School, this book explores the diversity of governmental pension plans and investigates how these financial institutions must change in years to come.
Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert J. Myers and Howard Young
Price: $99.95
ISBN: 9780812234794
Pub Date: January 1999
Format: Hardcover
424 Pages
Aging populations are stressing underfunded national social security systems. From the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School, this book explores proposals to reform social security, including privatization, means-testing, and raising retirement ages, as well as tax and benefit changes. Economists, actuaries, gerontologists, and academics join in a search for viable solutions, drawing lessons from the global context.
From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.
Edited by Michael S. Gordon, Olivia S. Mitchell and Marc M. Twinney
Price: $94.95
ISBN: 9780812233919
Pub Date: April 1997
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Developed by the Pension Research Council of The Wharton School, the book brings together a team of leading economists, corporate and labor specialists, actuaries, and policy experts to examine the future of retirement options within the context of emerging labor and business trends and innovative developments in the pension community.
