Matching contributions for pensions [[electronic resource] ] : a review of international experience / / edited by Richard Hinz ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462317703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2013
• ISBN: 1-283-84706-X; 0-8213-9493-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HinzRichard P
• Disciplina: 346.7305
• Soggetti: Pensions - Government policy; Defined contribution pension plans - Government policy; Pensions - Finance; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I. Introduction and Conceptual Issues; 1. Early Lessons from Country Experience with Matching Contribution Schemes; 2. Policies to Encourage Private Pension Savings: Evidence from OECD Countries; Figures; 2.1 Expenditure on private pension benefits as percentage of total pension expenditure, in selected OECD countries, 1990 and 2007; 2.2 Sources of income of people over 65 in selected OECD countries, mid-2000s; 2.3 Contribution of public and private components to simulated lifetime benefits in 21 OECD countries, 20082.4 Impact of pension reforms on lifetime retirement income benefits in selected OECD countries; 2.5 Private pension coverage in selected OECD countries, 2009; 2.6 Relationship between private pension coverage and age and earnings in selected countries; 2.7 Tax treatment of investment returns, private pension contributions, and withdrawals in selected OECD countries; 2.8 Tax treatment of benchmark savings and private pensions in selected OECD countries; 2.9 Correlation between coverage of voluntary private pensions and tax incentives for private pensions relative to benchmark savings2.10 ; Percentage of IRA and 401(k) saving that is new saving; 2.11 Revenues foregone from tax incentives for private pensions in selected OECD countries as a percentage of GDP and a percentage of public expenditure on pensions, 2007; 2.12 Pensioners' incomes as a percentage of population income in selected OECD countries, mid-2000s; 2.13 Coverage of voluntary private pensions compared with tax incentives for private pensions relative to benchmark savings in selected OECD countriesPart II. High-Income Country Experience; 3. Matching Contributions in 401(k) Plans in the United States; Tables; 3.1 Percentage of active participants deferring enough salary to take full advantage of the maximum employer match, by company size; 3.2 Level of match offered by companies offering matching contributions, by company size; 3.3 Type of employer contributions, by company size; 3.1 Predicted employee contributions for selected persons and plan matching formulas3.4 Changes in employer contribution rates to 401(k) plans that adopted automatic enrollment between 2005 and 2009, by type of modification; 3.5 Inclusion of safe harbor plans in defined contribution plans, by company size; 3.6 Use of automatic enrollment in defined contribution plans, by company size; 4. Riester Pensions in Germany: Design, Dynamics, Targeting Success, and Crowding-In; 4.1 Statutory incentives for supplementary pension provision, 2002-08; 4.1 Subsidy as percentage of total (own plus government matching) contribution
• Sommario/riassunto: The use of matching contributions to enhance the participation and level of savings in pensions system has now been in use for nearly three decades in a number of high income countries. Increasingly, countries across the full range of economic development are looking to the design as a means of addressing the low rates of participation in formal pension and other retirement savings systems. A number of countries have recently introduced innovations in their pension systems that significantly rely on contributions matches and related types of direct subsidies to provide incentives for groups th

Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II / / Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gómez Quiñones

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959107503321
• Autore: Zamora Emilio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-60344-334-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Collana: Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; ; no. 15
• Altri autori (Persone): Gómez-QuiñonesJuan
• Disciplina: 331.6/272076409044
• Soggetti: Foreign workers, Mexican - Texas - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans - Employment - Texas - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Civil rights - Texas - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Texas - Social conditions - 20th century; Discrimination in employment - Texas - History - 20th century; United States Foreign relations Mexico; Mexico Foreign relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Wartime recovery and denied opportunities -- Elevating the Mexican cause to a hemispheric level -- The fight for Mexican rights in Texas -- The FEPC and Mexican workers in Texas -- The slippery slope of equal opportunity in the refineries of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast -- Negotiating Mexican workers' rights at Corpus Christi.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination undermined job opportunities, Zamora investigates the intervention by Mexico in the treatment of workers, the U.S. State Department's response, and Texas' emergence as a key site for negotiating the application of the Good Neighbor Policy. He examines the role of women workers, the evolving political struggle, the rise of the liberal-urban coalition, and the conservative tradition in Texas. ; Zamora also looks closely at civil and labor rights-related efforts, implemented by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Fair Employment Practice Committee. EMILIO ZAMORA is an associate professor of history and associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.