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
Colleges and universities across the country face huge challenges as their faculties age, their budgets stagnate, and mandatory retirement becomes a thing of the past. In To Retire or Not? the nation's...
Some 13 million public-sector workers in the United States—including teachers, police and firefighters, state and municipal employees, judges, and legislators—and another six million federal and...
Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert J. Myers and Howard Young
Price: $99.95
ISBN: 9780812234794
Pub Date: January 1999
Format: Hardcover
424 Pages
The United States social security system is the nation's largest social insurance program. As such, it has a far-reaching impact throughout the economy, influencing not only old-age economic security...
A text that quantifies and provides new or improved actuarial notation for long recognized pension cost concepts and procedures and, in certain areas, develops new insights and techniques. With the...
Understanding the historical development of pensions is critical to the future of retirement systems around the world. A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States offers a comprehensive...
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
As the United States comes to terms with the pending insolvency of social security, workers are increasingly pinning their hopes for retirement adequacy on employer-sponsored plans. Positioning Pensions...
