This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession...

Der vorliegende Band enthält die auf der Jahrestagung 1997 des Ausschusses für Sozialpolitik gehaltenen Referate. Hans Jürgen Rösner behandelt Struktur- und Organisationsprinzipien sozialer Sicherung. Als Funktionen, die ein neues Paradigma zu erfüllen haben, werden Integration,...

In this book Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The...