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The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security

5 reviews
Sylvester J. Schieber, John B. Shoven

Yale University Press, 1999

You Must Buy This Book!
Syl Schieber does it again! I've heard Dr. Schieber's fascinating presentations many times over the years, and this book provides further details to bolster his and Shoven's arguments. The bottom line is this: America is woefully unprepared for the demographic tsunami that looms in the next century, when 70-million-plus Baby Boomers hit old age. Without taking the modest and requisite steps ...

National Saving and Economic Performance (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

University Of Chicago Press, 1991

The past decade has witnessed a decline in saving throughout the developed world—the United States has the dubious distinction of leading the way. The consequences can be serious. For individuals, their own economic security and that of their families is jeopardized. For society, inadequate rates of saving have been blamed for a variety of ills—decreasing the competitive abilities of American industry, slowing capital accumulation, ...

Debt, Taxes, and Corporate Restructuring
John B. Shoven

Brookings Institution Press, 1990

Pensions in the U.S. Economy (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

University Of Chicago Press, 1988

Pensions in the U.S. Economy is the fourth in a series on pensions from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For both economists and policymakers, this volume makes a valuable contribution to current research on pensions and the economics of the elderly. The contributors report on retirement saving of individuals and the saving that results from corporate funding of pension plans, and they examine particular aspects of the plans themselves ...

Applying General Equilibrium (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature)
John B. Shoven, John Whalley

Cambridge University Press, 1992

The aim of this book is to make more widely available a body of recent research activity that has become known as applied general equilibrium analysis. The central idea underlying this work is to convert the Walrasian general equilibrium structure (formalized in the 1950s by Kenneth Arrow, Gerard Debreu and others) from an abstract representation of an economy into realistic models of actual economies. Numerical, empirically based general ...

The structure of Social Security and Medicare.: An article from: NBER Reporter
John B. Shoven

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from NBER Reporter, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2090 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The structure of Social Security and Medicare. Author: ...

Should the United States Privatize Social Security? (Alvin Hansen Symposium Series on Public Policy)
Henry J. Aaron, John B. Shoven

The MIT Press, 1999

The two papers that make up the core of this book address what is perhaps the most fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security: whether to shift, in part or even entirely, from today's pay-as-you-go system to one that is not just funded but also privatized in the sense that individuals would retain control over the investment of their funds and, therefore, personally bear the associated risk. John Shoven argues yes, Henry ...

Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
Herbert E. Scarf, John B. Shoven

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This book presents a collection of articles on applied general equilibrium analysis by major contributors to this field. This rapidly expanding method of analysis involves the use of computers to study entire economies and the interrelationships among firms, households and governments in these economies. There are also articles on the particular computational techniques involved in the numerical estimation of these equilibrium models and on ...

Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform

3 reviews
George P. Shultz, John B. Shoven

W. W. Norton, 2008

Very practical solutions to a growing problem!
Wealth Odyssey: The Essential Road Map For Your Financial Journey Where Is It You Are Really Trying To Go With Money? Social Security is an important element for people to maintain their Standard of Individual Living (SOIL). The majority of people rely on Social Security according to the Soc. Sec. Administration (over 50% of income for 54% of married and for 74% of single people comes from ...

The Evolving Pension System : Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform
William Gale, John B. Shoven, ...

Brookings Institution Press, 2000

Labor Day 1999 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the landmark legislation that enacted sweeping reforms in the nature and structure of the private pension system. Since 1974, the taxation and regulation of pensions have been further revised on numerous occasions. The impacts of existing policy and the appropriate direction of future pension policy have become controversial ...

Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

University Of Chicago Press, 2000

Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

University Of Chicago Press, 1983

This book provides valuable information and analysis to managers, policymakers, and investment counselors in the rapidly expanding field of pension funding. American workers, too, need answers and insights on how to invest their money and plan for their retirement. fifteen of America's leading financial analysts address such pressing questions as -What is the current financial status of the elderly, and how vulnerable are they to inflation? ...

Private Pensions and Public Policies
John B. Shoven, Mark J. Warshawsky

Brookings Institution Press, 2004

The private pension system, together with Social Security, has provided millions of Americans with income security in retirement. But over the past thirty years, pension coverage has stagnated, leaving behind some vulnerable groups. Defined contribution plans have exposed workers to greater investment risk, while cash balance and other hybrid plans may have adverse effects on older workers caught in the transition. Pension regulations, ...

Issues in Pension Economics (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

University Of Chicago Press, 1987

In the past several decades, pension plans have become one of the most significant institutional influences on labor and financial markets in the U.S. In an effort to understand the economic effects of this growth, the National Bureau of Economic Research embarked on a major research project in 1980. Issues in Pension Economics , the third in a series of four projected volumes to result from thsi study, covers a broad range of pension issues ...

Irving Fisher's spendings (consumption) tax in retrospect.: An article from: The American Journal of ...
John B. Shoven, John Whalley

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc., 2005

This digital document is an article from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, published by American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the ...

Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

In the increasingly global economy, domestic tax policies have taken on a new importance for international economics. This unique volume compares the tax reform experiences of Canada and the United States, two countries with the world's largest bilateral flow of trade and investment. With the signing of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the tax reforms of the 1980s, there has been some harmonization of tax systems. But geographic, ...

Government Policy towards Industry in the United States and Japan

Cambridge University Press, 2006

The essays contained in this volume represent state-of-the-art thinking on many important issues relating to government policies in the Japanese and American economies.

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