The private abuse of the public interest

markets myths and policy muddles

Despite George W. Bush#s professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Clinton administration, and demands on government have continued to grow. Why? Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs show that conservative efforts to ...

SIPES, un modelo de simulación del sistema de pensiones contributivas en España

proyecciones de gasto a largo plazo

La política comunitaria contra la discriminación de género

una propuesta de evaluación de su coste en los planes y fondos de pensiones de empleo, Su aplicación al caso español

Una propuesta de evaluación de su coste en los planes y fondos de pensiones de empleo. Su aplicación al caso español.

Frontiers in pension finance

How to deliver adequate pension benefits at reasonable costs is a huge challenge confronting our ageing societies. This book delivers a comprehensive overview of the latest insights into pension finance, pension system design, pension governance and risk based supervision. It combines state-of-the-art analyses with innovative ...

Pension fund governance

a global perspective on financial regulation

The academic literature on pension governance is sparse and this book will begin to fill some important gaps by bringing together original contributions from around the world on subjects related to the area. The book initially lays out the main frameworks for pension fund governance ...

The activation dilemma

reconciling the fairness and effectiveness of minimum income schemes in europe

The activation of social welfare recipients has been, and still is, a central issue in the development of social and employment policies in Europe. This ambitious book explores the employment effectiveness of Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) schemes, and provides the first comprehensive examination of its ...

When I'm sixty-four

the plot against pensions and the plan to save them

A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In "When I'm Sixty-Four", Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on, revealing the causes ...

Entitlement reform process

other countries' experiences

Elaborated by U.S. Government Accountability Office. With CD-ROM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book analyses: other countries' major efforts to reform entitlement programs, the pressure(s) that led countries to undertake the reforms, how reform proposals were developed, and to what extent enacted reforms built in triggers requiring ...

Working longer

the solution to the retirement income challenge

Daily headlines warn American workers that their retirement years may be far from golden. The average worker needs more retirement income than ever, due to increased life expectancy and soaring health care costs. But the main components of the retirement income system - Social Security and ...

Reforming pensions

principles and policy choices

Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the ...

Privatizing pensions

the transnational campaign for social secutiry reform

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to be the sole domain of domestic politics? "Privatizing Pensions" reveals ...

Ending global poverty

a guide to what works

This is a call to arms from an expert on global poverty.Global poverty focused in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia remains an issue of concern within charitable organizations and social activists. It offers both information on the economics behind ending poverty as ...

Annuity markets

The Pension Crisis concerns the changing demographic profile of the economy: an increasing number of elderly persons supported by fewer young people. Governments around the world are responding to this impending crisis by shifting their pension policies away from pay-as- you-go systems towards individual savings ...

While America aged

how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC Subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis

In this book, author Roger Lowenstein explores how and why corporations and governments made ruinous pension and health care promises to American workers. These promises are now coming due and they threaten to hit twenty-first-century America like a tsunami.

El mercado español de fondos y planes de pensiones

Este libro sobre Fondos y Planes de Pensiones analiza de forma rigurosa y pormenorizada la importancia de la previsión social complementaria, en general, y de los fondos y planes de pensiones en particular. Dicha importancia se ha visto incrementada durante los últimos años debido a ...

La economía política de las pensiones en España

Aut. Marco Celentani...[et al]. El envejecimiento de la población, debido principalmente al espectacular aumento en la esperanza de vida, amenaza la sostenibilidad financiera de los sistemas de pensiones de reparto implantados después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Muchos economistas, y la mayoría de las ...

Insitutions for social well-being

alternatives for Europe

In the debate on the future of Europe#s social dimension, efficiency is often seen as the main economic objective. Considerations of social equity are regarded as subjective and as a constraint on policymaking, and many argue that economic forces should prevail over social objectives ...

La riqueza inmobiliaria

¿un 'cajero automático' para las personas mayores?

Los ancianos pobres, mueren ricos en patrimonio". Esta es una de las conclusiones del estudio de la Obra Social "la Caixa" que considera que las personas de más edad deberán recurrir cada vez más a fórmulas como la hipoteca inversa para financiar su vejez, pese ...

Las entidades de economía social en un entorno globalizado

Esta obra, como su mismo título sugiere, analiza la influencia que la globalización está teniendo sobre las entidades de la Economía Social. El lector podrá formarse una idea de las amenazas y también oportunidades que la globalización entraña para las citadas entidades a partir de ...

The economics of social problems

The fourth edition of this popular textbook draws on recent developments in social issues, placing them within an economic framework that provides both an introduction and a clear analysis of these concerns. The authors have retained the established structure of previous editions while expanding their ...