Social Insurance: A Program of Social Reform.

Social insurance reform in Czechoslovakia; background and plans.

*Office of M i l i t a r y Government for Germany ( U . S.), Manpower Div is ion , Soc ia l Insurance Branch . DEVELOPMENT OF PLANS for a unified, Nation-wide program of social insur ance for Czechoslovakia and adoption of a 2-year plan for the rehabi l i tat ion of its nat ional economy appear to pave the way for eventual long-range solution of the present difficulties besetting the social ins...

Social Norms in Social Insurance

We analyze how insurance arrangements, labor supply, moral hazard and outright cheating are affected by social norms. One question is under what conditions norms may improve social welfare. Another is under what conditions people should be allowed to opt out of social insurance. We introduce an informal production sector to analyze the consequences of alternative assumptions about the informati...

The financial outlook for the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

Historical redistribution under the Social Security Disability Insurance Program.

This study uses Social Security administrative data on historical taxes and benefits by year, age, gender, and race for an ex post analysis of redistribution under the Disability Insurance (DI) program. The relationship between the taxes paid and benefits received to date under the program is described for successive cohorts as a whole and for specific race and gender groups both within cohorts...

Recent trends in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program.

Earlier analysis documented the rapid growth of the Disability Insurance (DI) program from 1966 to 1975; this article discusses trends since 1975. Over the decade of the 1970's, the population insured for disability increased by 34 percent, and women as a proportion of the insured population rose from 32.4 percent in 1970 to 39.1 percent in 1980, reflecting the increase in female labor-force pa...