When there are lots of companies offering workers long term defined benefit retirement pensions, there are fewer advantages to the government in setting up a parallel defined benefit scheme and requiring workers to participate in it.

As a result, an ever smaller slice of employers are offering anything like defined benefit pensions.

When there are lots of companies offering workers long term defined benefit retirement pensions, there are fewer advantages to the government in setting up a parallel defined benefit scheme and requiring workers to participate in it. After all, in such a world, workers who set great value on a defined benefit pension can go to work for firms that offer such pensions.

This fall off in private defined benefit pensions all across the rich core of the world economy is a bad thing, because the configuration of asset prices suggests that young and middle aged workers value defined benefit pensions extremely highly.

The risk from defined benefit pensions used to be offset by two benefits for companies that offered them.

But there aren t a lot of companies today that are willing to offer long term defined benefit pension schemes.

Not even America s IBM which prides itself on stability wants to take the risk of offering defined benefit schemes.

Labor unions have long pointed with satisfaction at hard won contracts that specified a defined benefit pension for their members.

He fulfilled his obligation.

II. Scope of the obligation

This is our legal obligation.

She knows it's her obligation.

x4z Not defined.

User Defined Actions

Widow's benefit

Retirement benefit

Widow's benefit

Workers and other asset holders place a very high value on safety, security, and predictability, so a defined benefit pension plan is extremely valuable.

Workers and other asset holders place a very high value on safety, security, and predictability, so a defined benefit pension plan is extremely valuable.

It's a sort of moral obligation.

Legal obligation of the State to

It s an obligation to kill him.

It is our obligation to help.

And the benefit?

Cost benefit analysis.

Deferred retirement benefit

Teamwork was an obligation, not a choice.

International obligation in force for a State

You have an obligation to explain why.

After all, in such a world, workers who set great value on a defined benefit pension can go to work for firms that offer such pensions.

My duty is clearly defined.

Things are not clearly defined.

Tom's muscles are well defined.

Tom has well defined muscles.

The US has a special obligation to help.

So we fulfilled that obligation by killing him.

We have an obligation to do our best.

Divorced surviving spouse's benefit

Tom receives unemployment benefit.

Private businesses are providing their workers with less and less in the form of defined benefit pensions, health insurance, and other forms of insurance against life s economic risks.

Any Indian government s primary obligation is to its own people, and there is little doubt that the economic opportunities provided by Burmese oil and gas are of real benefit to Indians.

The value of these accounts would fluctuate with the market rather than resting on a defined benefit scheme that guarantees a fixed real sum of resources available upon retirement.

Success needs to be defined narrowly.

Nor is it defined by geography.

'Happiness can be defined so differently!