 Social Security evaluation: A critiqueJorge Soares No 139, Computing in Economics and Finance 2001 from Society for Computational Economics Abstract: The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of a social security system on the well-being of each individual in the economy and to challenge the measures commonly used in this type of policy analysis. We show that measures based on the notion of actuarial fairness do not measure correctly the impact that social security has on each individual's well-being. We study the bias of these measures by relating it to different sources of heterogeneity and to the impact of social security on individual's decisions and on factor prices. In order to correctly evaluate the impact of social security on the well-being of an individual we need to take into account that this policy affects her welfare in other ways than through its direct impact on her lifetime income. Social security influences her labor and savings decisions as well as factor prices, affecting leisure levels, labor income and the return to savings. In sum, this paper reinforces the belief that, in order to accurately evaluate how social security system affects the well-being of the individuals, we need to use a general equilibrium framework where we can account for all the repercussions of social security. Keywords: Social security; welfare; general equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sce:scecf1:139 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Computing in Economics and Finance 2001 from Society for Computational Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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