Pensions and the Professional

Pensions

and adaptability on the other need very careful adjustment. It is pleasing to read that the authors advocate giving full range to the more generous sentiments of human nature, and that they treat this subject sympathetically, but at the same time they endeavour to eliminate abuse as far as possible. The scheme of the book is interesting, it traces the history of the pension system from its ince...

Pensions and Training

Pensions and Training Economic analysis of private pensions commonly assumes that incentives for long tenure and early retirement enhance workforce productivity. An implication of the productivity theory of pensions is that workers who receive job training are more likely to be covered. We test this prediction with data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). We find a strong positive relatio...

Pensions and Health

ground, or it may be the middle distance, into the mists of futurity. It is clear, therefore, that pensions and vigorous health are closely linked. Even the military or naval pensioner, notwithstanding that he may have suffered from wounds, exercises a blunting ?effect on the scythe of Time-?the Chelsea pensioner is a famous case in point. The reasons are so obvious and familiar that they hardl...

Taxes and Pensions Taxes and Pensions* Acknowledgements: I Am Grateful to Taxes and Pensions 090402 Page 2

Pension benefit rules depend on individual history far more than taxes do, and age plays a much larger role in pension determination than in tax determination. Apart from some simulation studies, theoretical studies of optimal tax design typically contain neither a mandatory pension system nor the behavioral dimensions that lie behind justifications commonly offered for mandatory pensions. Conv...

Insurance and Private Pensions