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Privatizing social security / edited by Martin Feldstein

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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1 online resource (x, 471 pages) : illustrations
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Feldstein, Martin S.
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Contents
Chilean pension reform / Sebastian Edwards -- Australia's retirement income system / Malcolm Edey and John Simon -- Roles of the public and private sectors in the U.K. pension system / Alan Budd and Nigel Campbell -- Pension system reform / Carlos Sales-Sarrapy, Fernando Solis-Soberon, and Alejandro Villagomez-Amezcua -- Shift to a funded social security system / Joaquin Cottani and Gustavo Demarco -- Transition path in privatizing social security / Martin Feldstein and Andrew Samwick -- Simulating the privatization of social security in general equilibrium / Laurence J. Kotlikoff -- Privatizing social security / Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier -- Individual financial decisions in retirement saving plans and the provision of resources for retirement / James M. Poterba and David A. Wise -- Administrative costs in public and private retirement systems / Olivia S. Mitchell.
Summary
This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. ... [Privatizing Social Security] presen.
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ISBN
0226241823 (electronic bk.)
9780226241821 (electronic bk.)
0226241017 (cloth)
9780226241012
9780226241821
0226241025 (pbk.)
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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