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