Fringe Benefits, Labour Costs and Social Security

Increased Living Costs and Social Security Benefits

T HE inroads of inflation on the living standards of social security beneficiaries have become familiar in many countries and have induced counter-measures of various sorts. The diversity of legislative action undertaken on behalf of retired beneficiaries serves to underline the virtually unanimous approval of higher benefits when they are required. Inspection of individual programs shows some ...

The growth of fringe benefits : implications for social security

Relative to cash pay, fringe benefits' have increased phenomenally during the past three decades. Although the official social security projections include the assumption that this phenomenal rate of growth will continue, no attention has been paid to the implications such growth is likely to have for long-range deficits in the social security trust fund . The projections assume that employer c...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

The Costs and Benefits of IUD Follow - Up Visits In the Mexican Social Security Institute

Volume 25, Number 1, March 1999 and providers (in terms of draining overall resources and interfering with scheduling appointments for clients with medical needs). Consequently, regimens of frequent revisits should afford a clear and demonstrated health benefit before they are accepted as standard medical practice. Research on IUD follow-up visits has been limited in scope and methodology. A re...

Women's worklives and future social security benefits.

More women will earn social security benefits in their own right in the next 30 years than do so at present; their benefits will not necessarily rise in relation to men's benefits. For this to occur, the ratio of women's earnings to men's would have to rise markedly or young women would have to work most of their lives. The earnings ratio has stayed nearly constant, for 25 years at least. In th...