Die Sozialordung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist ein Gefüge der unterschiedlichsten Komponenten: Gesetze und Grundlagen, Partner und Konkurrenten, Politikbereiche und Strukturen, Themen und Problemfelder. Die Sozialwissenschaftler F. Lothar Neumann und Klaus Schaper stellen die wichtigsten...

The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....

Social protection systems in Latin America have been transformed in the past two decades. Until the 1980s, those who were not covered by the social security arrangements available primarily in the urban formal sector received little public assistance beyond universal subsidies for some food or...

Poor heath, large acute and long-term care medical expenses, and spousal death are significant drivers of impoverishment among retirees. We document these facts and build a rich, overlapping generations model that reproduces them. We use the model to assess the incentive and welfare effects of...