Pension Research Council: Books: Prospects for Social Security Reform

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Prospects for Social Security Reform

Olivia S. Mitchell, RobertJ. Myers, and Howard Young, Editors
Global aging exerts enormous pressure on underfunded social security systems. This book critically evaluates proposals to reform social security, including privatization, means-testing, and raising retirement ages. Tax and benefit changes are also explored in detail. Economists, actuaries, gerontologists, and academics join in a search for viable solutions, drawing lessons from the US and other countries.

1999 · University of Pennsylvania Press · ISBN 0-8122-3479-0

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Download Table of Contents and Preface [1MB PDF]
Chapter 1: An Overview of the Issues
[2MB PDF]
Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert J. Myers, and Howard Young
Chapter 2: Measuring Solvency in the Social Security System [2.8MB PDF · login required]
Stephen C. Goss
Chapter 3: Criteria for Evaluating Social Security Reform [2.8MB PDF · login required]
Joseph F. Quinn
Chapter 4: New Opportunities for the Social Security System [2.5MB PDF · login required]
Stephen G. Kellison and Marilyn Moon
Chapter 5: Social Security Money's Worth [8MB PDF · login required]
John Geanakoplos, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Stephen P. Zeldes
Chapter 6: Simulating Benefit Levels Under Alternative Social Security Reforms [3.3MB PDF · login required]
Gordon P. Goodfellow and Sylvester J. Schieber
Chapter 7: Stochastic Simulation of Economic Growth Effects of Social Security Reform [2.5MB PDF · login required]
Martin R. Holmer
Chapter 8: Thinking About Social Security's Trust Fund [3.1MB PDF · login required]
Kent A. Smetters
Chapter 9: Government Guarantees for Old Age Income [3.1MB PDF · login required]
George G. Pennacchi
Chapter 10: Means Testing Social Security [3.1MB PDF · login required]
David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers
Chapter 11: Social Security and Employer Induced Retirement [2.9MB PDF · login required]
Robert M. Hutchens
Chapter 12: Compliance in Social Security Systems Around the World [2.8MB PDF · login required]
Joyce Manchester
Chapter 13: Possible Employer Responses to Social Security Reform [3.1MB PDF · login required]
Janice M. Gregory
Chapter 14: An Actuarial Perspective on How Social Security Reform Could Influence Employer-Sponsored Pensions [2.4MB PDF · login required]
Christopher Bone
Chapter 15: An Organized Labor Perspective on Social Security Reform [2.5MB PDF · login required]
David S. Blitzstein
Chapter 16: Women as Widows Under a Reformed Social Security System [2.4MB PDF · login required]
Karen C. Holden
Chapter 17: Investment and Administrative Constraints on Individual Social Security Accounts [2.9MB PDF · login required]
Robert C. Pozen and John M. Kimpel
Chapter 18: Americans' Views of Social Security and Social Security Reforms [1.7MB PDF · login required]
John Rother and William E. Wright
Contributors, Index [2.4MB PDF · login required]

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