The Costs of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Firm Adjustments

1 November 1979

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Vol. 93 (4) , 523-540
https://doi.org/10.2307/1884468

Abstract

I. Introduction, 523.—II. A defined benefit plan with level wages, 525.—III. Life cycle wage growth, 530.—IV. Implications for labor market adjustments, 534.—V. Concluding remarks, 538.

Keywords

DEFINED BENEFIT
LABOR
BENEFIT PENSION
MARKET
INTRODUCTION
REMARKS
III
COSTS OF DEFINED