Potential paths of social security reform

M Feldstein, A Samwick - Tax policy and the economy, 2002 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper presents several alternative social security reform options in which the projected
level of benefits for every future cohort of retirees is as high as or higher than the benefits …

The missing piece in policy analysis: social security reform

MS Feldstein - 1996 - nber.org
This lecture discusses the economic losses that result from an unfunded social security
retirement system and the potential gain from shifting to a funded system. The social security …

Structural reform of social security

M Feldstein - Journal of economic perspectives, 2005 - aeaweb.org
Governments around the world have enacted or are currently considering fundamental
structural reforms of their Social Security pension programs. The key feature in these reforms …

Different approaches for dealing with social security

EM Gramlich - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996 - aeaweb.org
This paper discusses the report of the 1994 Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social
Security, of which the author was chair. The system is out of long-term actuarial balance and …

Maintaining Social Security Benefits and Tax Rates through Personal Retirement Accounts: An Update Based on the 1998 Social Security Trustees Report

MS Feldstein, A Samwick - 1999 - nber.org
A program of Personal Retirement Accounts (PRAs) funded by deposits equal to 2.3 percent
of earnings (up to the Social Security maximum) would permit retirees to receive more …

Is the Social Security trust fund a Store of Value?

K Smetters - American Economic Review, 2004 - pubs.aeaweb.org
According to the Social Security Trustees (2003), the US Social Security system faces a
$10.5 trillion present-value imbalance. That amount is equal to Social Security's present …

Allocating payroll tax revenue to personal retirement accounts to maintain social security benefits and the payroll tax rate

MS Feldstein, A Samwick - 2000 - nber.org
In an earlier paper we analyzed a method of combining traditional tax financed pay-as-you-
go Social Security benefits with annuities financed by Personal Retirement Accounts. We …

Social security reform in the United States

AA Samwick - National Tax Journal, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
The the leading looming domestic financial policy crisis in issue the Social of the Security
1990s has system. been the looming financial crisis in the Social Security system. This crisis …

An assessment of the proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security

P Diamond, PR Orszag - Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2001 - degruyter.com
Abstract The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security proposed three plans for
reforming Social Security. All of them would create individual accounts financed by diverting …

[图书][B] Reducing Benefits and Subsidizing Individual Accounts: An Analysis of the Plans Proposed by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security

PA Diamond, PR Orszag - 2002 - cbpp.org
Executive Summary The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security proposed
three plans for reforming Social Security. All of them would create individual accounts …