Pensions at a Glance 2021 OECD and G20 Indicators
Pensions at a Glance 2021 OECD and G20 Indicators

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9264641335

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The 2021 edition of Pensions at a Glance highlights the pension reforms undertaken by OECD countries over the past two years. Moreover, the special chapter focuses on automatic adjustment mechanisms in pensions systems in OECD countries, discusses the usefulness and limitations of these policy instruments, and suggests ways to improve them in order to enhance the capacity of pension systems to fulfil their objectives.

Pensions at a Glance 2019 OECD and G20 Indicators
Pensions at a Glance 2019 OECD and G20 Indicators

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9264876103

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The 2019 edition of Pensions at a Glance highlights the pension reforms undertaken by OECD countries over the last two years. Moreover, two special chapters focus on non-standard work and pensions in OECD countries, take stock of different approaches to organising pensions for non-standard workers in the OECD, discuss why non-standard work raises pension issues and suggest how pension settings could be improved.

Pensions at Work
Pensions at Work

Author: Jack Quarter

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Pension funds have come to play an increasingly important role within the new economy. According to Statistics Canada, in 2006, trusteed pension funds in Canada had $836 billion of assets and represented the savings of 4.6 million Canadian workers. Pensions at Work is a unique collection of papers that uses a labour perspective to deal with the socially responsible investment of pension funds. Featuring leading Canadian and international scholars, it builds on existing scholarship on socially responsible investment and on the growing interest of the Canadian labour movement in joint trusteeship. What is unique about this collection is that it synthesizes three distinct themes - socially responsible investment, pension funds, and labour studies. The contributors address an array of critical issues such as gaps in the education of union trustees of pension funds, the impact of human capital criteria on shareholder returns, the influence of corporate engagement upon corporate performance, and the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Although the essays in Pensions at Work all address the nexus between socially responsible investment, pension funds, and unions, each looks at a particular manifestation of that relationship through a different disciplinary lens. This collection moves the discussion to pension funds in which union representatives are also trustees, a relatively new approach that will be of great interest to institutional investors, the labour movement, and instructors in labour studies programs.

OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Portugal
OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Portugal

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-03-20

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9264313737

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This review builds on the OECD’s best practices in pension design and provides policy recommendations on how to improve the Portuguese pension system, detailing the Portuguese pension system and its strengths and weaknesses based on cross-country comparisons. The Portuguese pension system ...

The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism
The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism

Author: Kevin Skerrett

Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780913447147

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It is often hoped and assumed that union stewardship of pension investments will produce tangible and enduring benefits for workers and their communities while minimizing the negative effects of what are now global and intensely competitive capital markets. At the core of this book is a desire to question the proposition that workers and their organizations can exert meaningful control over pension funds in the context of current financial markets. The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism is an engaging and readable text that will be of specific interest to members of the labor movement, pension activists, pension trustees, fund administrators, environmental activists, and employers/managers, as well as academics involved in pension or labor research. The contents and arguments of the book are applicable across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, because these countries experience a similar macroeconomic context and face a similar pension landscape.

Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond: The Evolving Process of Employee Relations Management
Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond: The Evolving Process of Employee Relations Management

Author: Bruce E. Kaufman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1315498316

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This collection examines the evolution of the philosophy and practice of human resource management (HRM) and industrial relations (IR) over the twentieth century. By combining history, contemporary practice, and future trends, these well-known experts present both scholarly and practitioner perspectives. Drawing on in-depth interviews and surveys with HRM executives at leading corporations, the contributors explore key trends and issues facing global companies in such areas as equal opportunity, compensation practices, and expatriation programs. The book also takes an in-depth look at one particular player in the story - Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., the first non-profit research and consulting organization dedicated to improved HRM/IR practices - which was founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1926, and has played a central role in the development of key labor legislation including the Social Security Act.