Employer-Sponsored Plans: The Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution

The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Munnell, Alicia H ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Defined benefits; Defined contribution; Employer sponsored plans; Retirement income; United Kingdom; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348951704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199272464.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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