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Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or a privatized system of personal accounts. In general, centralized systems offer low administrative costs, but are potentially subject to political mismanagement and appropriation. Privatized account systems,... more...
Ageing and Income
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2001; US$ 61.00This landmark study of the material well-being of older people in nine OECD countries -- Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States -- uses a wealth of new data to shed light on the challenges that face policy-makers as they anticipate the coming retirement of the baby-boom generation.... more...
Aging Population, Pension Funds, and Financial Markets
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 14.99Population aging will affect the performance of pension funds and financial markets in the former transition economies and require determined policy actions to complete financial market development and to promote financial literacy through education. more...
The Battle for Social Security
Wiley 2012; US$ 35.00This book illuminates the politics and policy of the current struggle over Social Security in light of the program's compelling history and ingenious structure. After a brief introduction describing the dramatic response of the Social Security Administration to the 9/11 terrorist attack, the book recounts Social Security???s lively history. Although... more...
Building Decent Societies
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 125.00This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries ? to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, reverse growing inequality and sustain economic growth. It gives the history of the rich countries in meeting poverty and shows how the strategies in the poor countries can be greatly improved. more...
Carers and their rights
Cargo Publishing (UK) Ltd 2012; US$ 7.29Carers and their Rights is Carers UK?s definitive guide to carers? rights to support from health and social services, as they care unpaid for ill, frail or disabled friends or family members. Written by solicitor and community care law expert Professor Luke Clements, this fifth edition includes updates based on a number of statutory and case law developments... more...
China's Pension System
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 24.99Comprehensive reform of China’s pension and social security system is an essential element of achieving its objectives of a harmonious society and sustainable development. Over the past few years, the Government has considered various options and initiated several significant measures. In 2009 the authorities established a national framework for... more...
Closing the Coverage Gap
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 24.99Closing the Coverage Gap discusses how social pensions and other retirement income transfers can be used to close the coverage gap of mandatory pension systems. The book is organized in three parts. The first part makes the case for these programs by assessing the extent of the coverage gap around the world and evaluating the vulnerability to poverty... more...
Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 159.95This book makes an innovative contribution to the field of retirement income security in three distinctive ways. First, it seeks to develop a sophisticated philosophical rationale for the social dimension, in the context of retirement. Such a rationale is frequently implicit in much of the relevant literature, and where explicit, is often crudely developed.... more...
Compensating Wounded Warriors
RAND Corporation 2012; US$ 9.95Analyzes the effect of injuries sustained by service members in Iraq and Afghanistan on post-deployment labor market earnings and the extent to which disability payments compensate for any lost earnings. more...
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