Social Security and Social Insurance

Social Insurance and Economic Security

Social legislation is the popular topic of the day. If he realizes it the Forgotten Man must be mildly annoyed by being so well remembered. While the noisy protagonists of the various styles of social insurance are making their stirring pleas it is only right that the opponents have their day in court. Dr. Ochsner ably presents the case. His long and active career as a student in the Health Ins...

Unemployment Insurance and Social Security (Incomplete Draft)

Social insurance programs represent a large proportion of government expenditure in many countries, including the United States and members of the European Union. Two programs that represent the bulk of these expenditures are unemployment insurance (UI) and social security (SS). (Throughout this paper SS will refer to disability and retirement bene...ts paid as annuities.) The main purpose of U...

Social security disability insurance and supplemental security income programs.

Women’s Feeling of Social Security and Social Happiness

Social Happiness is one of the humanity’s most necessary innate needs and which plays a crucial role in the sublimity of individuals and society. Reaching this would occur once individual has either physical or mental health. One of the effective factors in increasing the amount of individuals’ social Happiness especially in women is providing them with mental dimension of security e.g. felling...

Social Security, Life Insurance and Annuities for Families

In this paper we ask whether some aspects of social security, namely its role as providing insurance against uncertain life spans is welfare enhancing. We pose and calibrate models with agents differing in age, sex and marital histories where we compare the implications of different social security policies under a variety of market structures. We find no support for social security policies fo...