Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices

Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-366

  Barr, Nicholas ^a   Diamond, Peter ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging crisis; Annuities; Defined benefit pensions; Defined contribution pensions; Demographic change; Insurance; Pension design; Pension systems; Retirement; Social security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919676085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311303.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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