Income maintenance in old ageWhat can be learned from cross-national comparisons?

Income maintenance in old ageWhat can be learned from cross-national comparisons?

Income maintenance in old age

What can be learned from cross-national comparisons?

Smeeding

Timothy M.

Smeeding, Timothy M.

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Chestnut Hill, Mass. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College20012001monographic

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

2001

2001

monographic

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English

eng

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The purpose of this paper is to review the recent evidence on the antipoverty effectiveness and other characteristics of income maintenance systems for the elderly in the rich nations of the world. As we move toward Social Security reform in the United States, we do so knowing that a comparatively high fraction of our older population experience, income poverty compared to their counterparts in other nations. Strategies to reduce the future Social Security deficit need to take into account the way that program changes affect poverty and benefit adequacy as well as fiscal soundness. Other nations offer approaches which would help us to achieve lower poverty rates while also providing fiscally responsible solutions to the future public costs of an aging society through reforms to the Social Security system.

Timothy M. Smeeding (with assistance from James Williamson).

CRR WP2001-11

CRR WP2001-11

CRR WP

2001-11

http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Working_Papers/wp_2001-11.pdf

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