The Impact of Longevity Improvements on U.S. Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans /

This paper provides the first empirical assessment of the impact of life expectancy assumptions on the liabilities of private U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using detailed actuarial and financial information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, we construct a longevity variable for ea...

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מחבר ראשי: Kiff, John
מחברים אחרים: Kisser, Michael, Oppers, S., Soto, Mauricio
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/170
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF
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