Retirements at risk / Alicia H. Munnell -- Expanding participation in America's workplace retirement system / Gary Burtless -- Financial market turbulence and social security reform / Gary Burtless -- The plan to save American workers' retirements / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Learning from...

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...

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...