Description
Book SynopsisExplores the relation between employees' preferences for certain types of pension plans and their productivity. This text shows how pensions influence workers' behaviour on the job, and argues that these plans can help firms select and pay their best workers without expending monitoring resources.
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Ch. 1: Developments in the Market for Private Pensions Ch. 2: Defined Benefit Plans as Implicit Contracts Ch. 3: Impact of Pensions on Quit Rates Ch. 4: Quits and Retirements in the Federal Government Ch. 5: Pensions and Retirement Patterns Ch. 6: Role of Pensions in Earlier Retirement after 1970 Ch. 7: Toward Explaining the Growth of Defined Contribution Plans Ch. 8: Sorting across Plan Type Ch. 9: Encouraging High Discounters to Quit Ch. 10: Aligning Pay and Productivity: 401k Plans Ch. 11: Reliability as a Hidden Worker Attribute Ch. 12: Tax Considerations and Plan Choice Ch. 13: A Pension Tax Policy for Low Discounters Ch. 14: Incentives, High Discounters, and Social Security Ch. 15: Reforms for the Disability and Medicare Programs Notes Selected References Index
