TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blahous,Charles
TI  - Pension Wise: Confronting Employer Pension Underfunding—And Sparing Taxpayers the Next Bailout
T2  - Hoover inst press Publication
SN  - 9780817912161
AV  - HD7125 -- .B534 2011eb 
U1  - 331.25/20973 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Hoover Institution Press
KW  - Pensions -- United States
KW  - Old age pensions -- United States
KW  - Compensation management -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Nature of Single-Employer Defined-Benefit Pensions -- The Nation's Pension Insurance System: The Condition of the PBGC -- The Magnitude of Pension Underfunding Nationwide -- Technical Reasons for Pension Underfunding -- Pension Plan Assets -- Pension Plan Liabilities -- Addressing Underfunding: Statutory Contribution Requirements -- Other Funding Safeguards Established by the PPA -- Premiums -- Recent Developments: Legislation and the Financial Markets' Plunge -- Additional Reasons for Underfunding: Structural Issues Facing the PBGC -- Political Economy Factors -- Pension Funding Policy Principles: Separating Measurement Accuracy from Value Judgments -- Can the Hole be Filled? Separating Fairness from Risk Issues -- Going Forward: General Principles for Pension Insurance System Reform -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index
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