Social Protection and the Market in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Protection and the Market in Latin America write by Sarah M. Brooks. This book was released on 2008-11-03. Social Protection and the Market in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social security institutions have been among the most stable post-war social programs around the world. Increasingly, however, these institutions have undergone profound transformation from public risk-pooling systems to individual market-based designs. Why has this 'privatization' occurred? Why do some governments enact more radical pension privatizations than others? This book provides a theoretical and empirical account of when and to what degree governments privatize national old-age pension systems. Quantitative cross-national analysis simulates the degree of pension privatization around the world and tests competing hypotheses to explain reform outcomes. In addition, comparative analysis of pension reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay evaluate a causal theory of institutional change. The central argument is that pension privatization emerges from political conflict, rather than from exogenous pressures. The argument is developed around three dimensions: the double bind of globalization, contingent path-dependent processes, and the legislative politics of loss imposition.
The Real Deal
The Real Deal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Real Deal write by Sylvester J.. Schieber. This book was released on 1999-01-01. The Real Deal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work puts debates about Social Security reform into historical perspective, considers various reform ideas, and elaborates a proposal to ensure that the system can continue to meet the claims of the retired and the disabled. It sets out a plan to change the way Social Security is financed.
Fixing Social Security
Fixing Social Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fixing Social Security write by R. Douglas Arnold. This book was released on 2022-04-12. Fixing Social Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How Social Security has shaped American politics—and why it faces insolvency Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends—longer lifespans and declining birthrates—mean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. Without reforms, 83 million Americans will face an immediate benefit cut of 20 percent in 2034. How did we get here and what is the solution? In Fixing Social Security, R. Douglas Arnold explores the historical role that Social Security has played in American politics, why Congress has done nothing to fix its insolvency problem for three decades, and what legislators can do to save it. What options do legislators have as the program nears the precipice? They can raise taxes, as they did in 1977, cut benefits, as they did in 1983, or reinvent the program, as they attempted in 2005. Unfortunately, every option would impose costs, and legislators are reluctant to act, fearing electoral retribution. Arnold investigates why politicians designed the system as they did and how between 1935 and 1983 they allocated—and reallocated—costs and benefits among workers, employers, and beneficiaries. He also examines public support for the program, and why Democratic and Republican representatives, once political allies in expanding Social Security, have become so deeply polarized about fixing it. As Social Security edges closer to crisis, Fixing Social Security offers a comprehensive analysis of the political fault lines and a fresh look at what can be done—before it is too late.
Social Security
Social Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Security write by Daniel Béland. This book was released on 2005. Social Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compact, timely, well-researched, and balanced, this institutional history of Social Security's seventy years shows how the past still influences ongoing reform debates, helping the reader both to understand and evaluate the current partisan arguments on both sides.
Countdown to Reform
Countdown to Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Countdown to Reform write by Henry J. Aaron. This book was released on 2001. Countdown to Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this revised and updated edition of their influential book, two of the nation's most widely respected economists argue that calls for scrapping Social Security in favor of a privatized plan are misguided and that the claims that the system faces bankruptcy are not only exaggerated, they are just plain wrong. The authors analyze the economic assumptions underlying current reform efforts, closely scrutinizing proposals to reform Social Security. They also provide the historical background of the economic circumstances that different generations have faced and show how changes in Social Security have affected life in America.
