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Top Ten Myths Of Social Security Reform
The U.S. Social Security system has been one of the most successful public policy programs in our nation's history. This paper critically examines ten leading...
Company: Boston College
Date: September 2005 |
Boston College |
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Are The Social Security Trust Funds Meaningful?
Social Security traditionally has operated on a pay-as-you-go basis - that is, current taxes pay for current benefits. This paper explains the effectiveness of building...
Company: Boston College
Date: May 2005 |
Boston College |
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Providing Guarantees In Social Security
Some Social Security reforms would provide guarantees that individuals would not receive less under a reformed system than would be provided by current law. However,...
Company: Boston College
Date: May 2004 |
Boston College |
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Fiscal Effects Of Social Security Reform In The United States
Any Social Security reform designed to improve the solvency of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust funds will automatically have a beneficial effect...
Company: Boston College
Date: April 2003 |
Boston College |
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Supply-Side Consequences Of Social Security Reform: Impacts On Saving And Employment
Pension reform can potentially increase saving and improve incentives for labor force participation later in life. We investigate whether these effects are likely to occur...
Company: Boston College
Date: January 2004 |
Boston College |
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Longer-Run U.S. Economic Performance And The Risk Of Financial And Fiscal Disarray
The U.S. federal budget is on an unsustainable path. In the absence of significant policy changes, federal government deficits are expected to total around $5...
Company: Brookings Institution
Date: January 2004 |
Brookings Institution |
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Scare Tactics: Why Social Security Is Not In Crisis
Social Security is not in crisis. Even pessimists predict that the program will be able to meet every promise until most of forty-year olds are...
Company: Century Foundation
Date: November 2004 |
Century Foundation |
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The Long-Term Real Interest Rate For Social Security
This paper considers the Social Security real interest rate, examining historical interest rates and estimates derived from Treasury inflation-indexed securities. The paper demonstrates that historical...
Company: U.S. Department of the Treasury
Date: March 2005 |
U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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The Excess Burden Of Government Indecision
Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions...
Company: London Business School
Date: August 2006 |
London Business School |
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The Battle Over Restructuring Social Security In The United States
This paper examines the efforts to privatize the Social Security system in the United States. The first section outlines the basic economics of the program...
Company: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Date: June 2003 |
Center for Economic and Policy Research |
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Social Security Coverage And The Labor Market In Developing Countries
This paper analyzes the reasons behind the low rates of contribution to social security programs in developing countries. Using a large set of harmonized household...
Company: Inter-American Development Bank
Date: May 2005 |
Inter-American Development Bank |
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Social Security And Unsecured Debt
Most young households simultaneously hold both unsecured debt on which they pay an average of 10 percent interest and social security wealth on which they...
Company: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Date: December 2004 |
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
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Optimal Design Of Social Security Reforms
We argue that a privatization of the social security system, going from a Pay-As-You-Go to a Fully Funded system, can be interpreted as the explicit...
Company: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Date: August 2004 |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
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Will Social Security And Medicare Remain Viable As The U.S. Population Is Aging?
The U.S. social security system - broadly defined to include Medicare - faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic...
Company: University of California
Date: September 2003 |
University of California |
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Role Of Government: As An Enabler, Regulator, And Provider Of ICT Based Services
The paper presents developments in the area of e-government in Asian countries. It discusses the kind of applications that have been developed, benefits that have...
Company: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Date: October 2003 |
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
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Sustaining Social Security
This paper analyzes the sustainability of intergenerational transfers in politico-economic equilibrium. Embedding electoral competition for the votes of old and young households in the standard...
Company: CESifo Group
Date: July 2005 |
CESifo Group |
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Needs-Based Approach To Social And Economic Rights
This paper deals with the relationship between social and economic rights and civil liberties and political rights. It looks at historical and contextual differences between...
Company: University of Connecticut
Date: September 2005 |
University of Connecticut |
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Securing Social Security: Sensitivity To Economic Assumptions And Analysis Of Policy Options
Our approach in this paper is to develop a relatively simple, transparent, and accurate model that can replicate the baseline analysis of the government agencies...
Company: Tufts University
Date: May 2005 |
Tufts University |
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The DeMint And McCrery Social Security Plans
Whether one supports private accounts or not, the DeMint and McCrery proposals fail on the merits. Their design, structure, and costs make little sense from...
Company: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date: July 2005 |
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
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The Effects Of Social Security: Evidence For Seventeen Countries
This paper explains an Euler equation for per capita consumption to investigate whether social security increases consumption ceteris paribus in seventeen countries. Following the seminal...
Company: Ohio State University
Date: February 2003 |
Ohio State University |
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Social Security, Saving, And The Economy
One issue that never seems far from the minds of policymakers is Social Security. At the heart of the issue is the large shortfall of...
Company: Library of Congress
Date: January 2005 |
Library of Congress |
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Innovative Strategies To Help Maximize Social Security Benefits
In this paper, we will strive to outline why Social Security deserves to be considered a valuable resource worthy of careful stewardship - and how...
Company: Prudential Financial
Date: April 2006 |
Prudential Financial |
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Pareto Improving Social Security Reform When Financial Markets Are Incomplete!?
This paper describes an Overlapping Generations model with stochastic production and incomplete markets to assess whether the introduction of an unfunded social security system can...
Company: University of Pennsylvania
Date: February 2005 |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Fertility And Social Security
The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent...
Company: University of Minnesota
Date: January 2005 |
University of Minnesota |
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A Basic Social Security Competition Model
We determine the conditions for social security competition in a standard Dixit-Stiglitz two-region model of international trade in which we allow for endogenous unemployment and...
Company: Ghent University
Date: April 2006 |
Ghent University |
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Social Security And Equity Investment In An Economy With Financial Intermediaries And Costly Monitoring
This paper aims at extending the analysis of the efficiency of equilibria in an OLG framework with asymmetric information. The author studies the stationary states...
Company: Universita Degli Studi di Roma
Date: October 2005 |
Universita Degli Studi di Roma |
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Thoughts On Social Security Reform
We favor reform of Social Security. That is because rising life expectancies make the current system unsustainable. We disagree with those who argue that the...
Company: Goldman Sachs
Date: January 2005 |
Goldman Sachs |
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Social Security And Government Deficits: When Should We Worry?
In this paper, the author discusses the basic nature of retirement financing and put Social Security in perspective as a pay-as-you-go system that has been...
Company: George Washington University Law School
Date: January 2007 |
George Washington University Law School |
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Social Security Reforms In Latin America: What Can The US Learn?
More than ten countries in Latin America have enacted reforms that have some things in common with what is being contemplated for the US -...
Company: World Bank Group
Date: December 2005 |
World Bank Group |
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Means Testing For Social Security
The Social Security benefit formula uses as input the wages on which the worker and employer have made contributions. A wide variety of possible reforms...
Company: American Academy of Actuaries
Date: January 2004 |
American Academy of Actuaries |
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Social Security, Fertility And Labor Supply
This paper explains the causes and dynamics of pay-as-you-go social security financial crises and its impact on a country's economic performance. Its main hypothesis is...
Company: Universidad de Chile
Date: September 2005 |
Universidad de Chile |
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Consumption, Retirement And Social Security
This paper explains the effect on individuals' retirement and consumption choices of a potential reform to the U.S. Social Security system. We first estimate the...
Company: University of Michigan
Date: December 2006 |
University of Michigan |
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Does Privatizing Social Security Produce Efficiency Gains?
The current Social Security system - provides insurance against uncertain life spans and working ability shocks; - generates labor market distortions induced by the payroll...
Company: Georgia State University
Date: May 2006 |
Georgia State University |
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Empower Social Services And Social Security Organizations To Optimize Efficiency, Collaboration And Service Levels
Nowadays public sector environment, the demands on social services and social security organizations have increased. Citizens now expect their government organizations to deliver the same...
Company: IBM
Date: February 2006 |
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Social Security: A Background Briefing
Social Security is the most successful program in our country's history. People look upon it as a promise - without an expiration date - that...
Company: AARP
Date: March 2005 |
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Serving The Aging Citizen
A Deloitte research study sheds light on how governments can come to grips with the emerging and rapidly approaching challenges posed by an aging population....
Company: Deloitte LLP
Date: April 2007 |
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The Government's Stake In The Health Care Industry
When it comes to the health care industry there are many different parties that could be considered stakeholders. Some of these groups include doctors, nurses,...
Company: Associated Content
Date: December 2006 |
Associated Content |
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The Entertainment Industry And Society: How Is It Affecting Us?
The issue of screening material that the entertainment industry churns out (such as TV programs and musical lyrics) is one that is often disputed but...
Company: Associated Content
Date: March 2007 |
Associated Content |
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How To Maximize Social Security Benefits
Although Social Security retirement benefits normally increase each year, the sad fact is that this income is still not enough to sustain most retirees. Should...
Company: HELIUM
Date: January 2008 |
HELIUM |
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Rescuing Social Security From Bankruptcy
We all buy car insurance and hope we'll never have to file a claim. We buy house insurance and hope we never have to collect....
Company: HELIUM
Date: January 2008 |
HELIUM |
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