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Employee Evaluation of Pension Claims and the Impact of Indexing Initiatives

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  • Pesando, James E

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There is discussion in both Canada and the United States of the government's requiring private pension plans to provide contractual cost-of-living protection. This paper employs both an auction and an implicit contract model to identify the compensating wage differentials required of possible indexing initiatives. The contract model, motivated by the prevalence (especially in Canada) of ad hoc cost-of-living adjustments to pensions in pay, presumes that workers have a call option on the investment earnings in excess of the interest rate assumption used to value the plan. The case for policy action would appear to rest on either (1) the assumption that workers misperceive the value (and, possibly, the security) of pension benefits or (2) the presumption that society should subsidize pension income by providing to pension plans an investment vehicle (such as an index bond) whose risk-return characteristics cannot be duplicated by portfolios of existing assets.

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Volume (Year): 22 (1984)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 1-17
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  1. Irwin Tepper, 1981. "Taxation and Corporate Pension Policy," NBER Working Papers 0661, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  1. Zvi Bodie & James E. Pesando, 1986. "Retirement Annuity Design in an Inflationary Climate," NBER Working Papers 0896, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Steven G. Allen & Robert L. Clark & Ann A. McDermed, 1993. "Post-Retirement Increases in Pensions in the 1980s: Did Plan Finances Matter?," NBER Working Papers 4413, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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