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Social security : a fresh look at policy alternatives /
Many of us suspect that social security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using long outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Gokhale here argues that the programme faces insolvency far sooner than previously thought.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; I. Issues in Evaluating Social Security's Finances; Chapter 1. The Simmering Social Security Reform Debate; Chapter 2. Simulating U.S. Demographics and Economics: Beginning in 1970; Chapter 3. Forward Motion: Demographic Transition, 19712006; Appendix 3.1. Mortality Rate Calculations; Appendix 3.2. Estimating Fertility Rates by Female Race, Age, and Education; Appendix 3.3. Marriage and Divorce; Appendix 3.4. Labor Force Status Transitions; Appendix 3.5. Calibration of Immigrants' Characteristics; Chapter 4. Peering into the Future.
- Chapter 5. A Framework for Simulating Annual Nominal EarningsAppendix 5.2. Simulating Workers' "Effective Labor Inputs" in 1970; Appendix 5.3. Regression for Simulating Life-Cycle "Core Labor Input" Trajectories; Chapter 6. Simulating Social Security's Finances; Appendix 6.1. The Social Security Tax and Benefit Calculator; Chapter 7. Micromeasures of Social Security's Financial Condition; II. Issues in Evaluating Social Security.