On the Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform

M. Hugett and Gustavo Jaime Ventura ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Mark Huggett ()

UWO Department of Economics Working Papers from University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics

Abstract: How will the distribution of welfare, consumption and leisure across households be affected by social security reform? This paper answers this question for a social security refom with a two-tier structure by comparing steady state under a realistic version of the current US system and under the two-tier system .

Keywords: SOCIAL RECURITY; INCOME; SOCIAL POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H50 H53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: On the Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform (1998)
Journal Article: On the Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform (1999)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwo:uwowop:9710

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in UWO Department of Economics Working Papers from University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
Address: Department of Economics, Reference Centre, Social Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2
Series data maintained by ().