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...

Ikegami reviews the implementation of mandatory long-term care insurance systems in Germany and Japan, which are organized as pay-as-you-go systems. I propose to go one step further and implement a multi-pillar, mandatory and voluntary long-term care financing system, which combines pay-as-you-go with capital-funded elements. The proposal is based on the observation tha...

The Social Security Administration reports that, of the $80 b&on spent for personal health care 2n fiscal year 1973, 15 pcrccnt was spent for the yozcng (under age .29), 57 percent for persons aged 19&j, and 28 percent for those aged 65 and over. The aged sndividunl had the largest per capita mcdtcal bill, $1,052; the bill was $384 for a per8on in the intermediate age group and $167 for a’ youn...

This article was prepared initially for an international conference of social security program administrators and researchers. They examined the reasons for, and implications of, a recent trend in several European countries toward making it easier to qualify for retirement or disability benefits as a way of alleviating long-term unemployment. The article notes that the United States has not fol...

Although disabled beneficiaries are not expected to work, do they continue to value work? This article compares data on a particular concept of work values, the importance to the self of having a job, for social security disability insurance beneficiaries, other disabled persons, and nondisabled persons interviewed in the Social Security Administration's 1978 Survey of Disability and Work. Desc...