Social security reforms in China: issues and prospects

Labor Market Reforms: Issues, Evidence and Prospects

The study of labor market segmentation and the estimation of the deadweight loss due to policy distortions reflected in wage structures require analyses of labor force surveys. These data are increasingly available in most countries. But evaluations of labor market reforms are uncommon. The lack of documented labor market reforms may reflect the difficulty of reducing wage distortions by direct...

Social Security reforms in Japan.

With these laws, the Japanese government raised patient copayments for health care, initiated a preventive health program to monitor the physical well-being of persons over age 40, and introduced resource pooling among all health programs to cover expenditures for the elderly. It also realigned public pension programs to inaugurate a two-tiered system for the nation’s working population, and ma...

Social Security Reforms in Southeast Asia By

Recent Social Security Reforms in France

Like covered payrolls and total benefit payments, the costs of workmen’s compensation were about 10 percent higher in 1969 than in 1968. As a result, employers continued to spend for the third consecutive year the same proportion of their payrolls to insure or self-insure their risks under workmen‘s compensation program-about $1.07 per $100 of payroll in covered employment. In earlier years, th...

The Relationship of Food Security and Economical-Social Issues with Osteoporosis in Women Over 45 Years

Background: One of the most fundamental objectives of the macroeconomic policies is to realize the relationship between economic growth and inflation. According to some monetary policy advisors, inflation reflects erosion in consumer’s purchasing power. Inflation as an important economic variable, affect the economic growth and its impact on economic growth has been proposed in various theories...