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Putting off retirement: the rise of the 401(k)
Owyang, Michael T.; Chiodo, Abbigail J. (2002-03)
National Economic Trends , Issue Mar

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Risk at the PBGC: public guarantee of private pension benefits
Sass, Steven A. (1996-04)
Regional Review , Issue Spr , Pages 19-24

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Estimating the funding gap of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Hirtle, Beverly; Estrella, Arturo; Brehm, John A. (1988-10)
Quarterly Review , Volume 13 , Issue Aut , Pages 45-59

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COVID-19 Poses Risks for State and Local Public Pensions
Felix, Alison (2020-08-19)
If the coronavirus pandemic leads to a protracted recession, public pension funding could weaken further in the years to come. During the 2001 and 2007–09 recessions, investment returns failed to reach pension plans’ longer-term assumed returns, and shortfalls in state and local government budgets led some employers to temporarily reduce contributions. If pension funding falls during the current crisis, state and local governments may choose to adjust plan structures as they did after the Great Recession.
Economic Bulletin

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The Limited Role of Intergenerational Transfers for Understanding Racial Wealth Disparities
Sabelhaus, John Edward; Thompson, Jeffrey P. (2023-03-07)
Transfers of wealth between generations—whether through inheritances or inter vivos gifts—are less important in explaining racial disparities in wealth than might be expected. While this factor looms large in the media’s discussions of racial inequality, it explains relatively little of the disparities evident in the data. One reason is that most people, regardless of race, receive no inheritance or other transfer of substantial value. In addition, most recipients of inheritances ultimately consume those bequests and do not plan to leave substantial gifts to their offspring. Further, ...
Current Policy Perspectives

Working Paper
Pensions, social security, and the distribution of wealth
Sunden, Annika E.; Kennickell, Arthur B. (1997)
This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to examine pension coverage, estimate Social Security and pension wealth for U.S. households in 1989 and 1992, and estimate the effects of pension wealth on non-pension net worth. As expected, the SCF data show that including pensions and Social Security in net worth makes the distribution more even. The analysis of the effects of pension wealth on other types of savings indicates that there is a negative effect of defined benefit plan coverage on non-pension net worth. Surprisingly, the effect of defined contribution plans, such as 401(k) ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1997-55

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Gasping over GASB
Wirtz, Ronald A. (2006-05)
Post-retirement health benefits could bring a shock to governments, retirees
Fedgazette , Volume 18 , Issue May , Pages 8-9

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An actuarial balancing act
Wirtz, Ronald A. (2006-05)
Debates over public pensions can quickly plunge into the pool of minutiae and tediousness.
Fedgazette , Volume 18 , Issue May , Pages 4

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Putting pension reform into perspective
Kay, Stephen J.; Sinha, Tapen (2008)
Many countries' aging populations have made pension reform an issue of crucial importance. Governments are deriving inspiration from the Americas, which have forged groundbreaking reforms in this area for decades.
EconSouth , Volume 10 , Issue 1

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Did pension plan accounting contribute to a stock market bubble?
Sharpe, Steven A.; Coronado, Julia Lynn (2003)
During the 1990s, the asset portfolios of defined-benefit (DB) pension plans ballooned with the booming stock market. Due to current accounting guidelines, the robust growth in pension assets resulted in a stealthy but substantial boost to the profits of sponsoring corporations. This study assesses the extent to which equity investors were fooled by pension accounting. First, we test whether stock prices reflected the fair market value of sponsoring firms' net pension assets reported in footnotes to the 10-K or, instead, some capitalization rate on the pension cost accruals embedded in the ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2003-38

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