Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World

Author: Axel Börsch-Supan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2025-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0226836363

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A global analysis of the effects of social security reforms on the retirement incentives and labor force trends of older workers. Employment among older men and women has increased dramatically in recent years, reversing a downward trend in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World examines how changing retirement incentives have reshaped labor force participation trends among older workers. The chapters feature country-specific analyses for Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They find that while there is significant heterogeneity across countries, the reforms of recent decades have generally reduced the implicit tax on work at older ages. These changes correlate positively with labor force participation. The studies exploit the variation in the timing and extent of reforms of retirement incentives and employ microeconometric methods to investigate whether this correlation reflects a causal relationship. Policy changes appear to have contributed to rising labor force activity, but other factors like the role of women in the labor force, improved health, and changes in private pensions likely also play important roles.

The Emergence of Social Security in Canada
The Emergence of Social Security in Canada

Author: Dennis T. Guest

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 077485068X

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The Emergence of Social Security in Canada has become a standard text in social work and related courses in post-secondary institutions across Canada. It is the first and most detailed history of Canadian social security from colonial times to the present. This book analyzes the major influences shaping the Canadian welfare state. A central trend in Canadian social security over most of the twentieth century has been a shift from a “residual” to an “institutional” concept. The residual approach, which dominated until the Second World War, posited that the causes of poverty and joblessness were to be found within individuals and were best remedied by personal initiative and reliance on the private market. However, the dramatic changes brought about by the Great Depression and the Second World War resulted in the rise of an institutional approach to social security. Poverty and joblessness began to be viewed as the results of systemic failure, and the public began to demand that governments take action to establish front-rank institutions guaranteeing a level of protection against the common risks to livelihood. Thus, the foundations of the Canadian welfare state were established. The Emergence of Social Security in Canada is both an important historical resource and an engrossing tale in its own right, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about Canadian social policy.

Improving Social Security in Canada
Improving Social Security in Canada

Author: Canada. Human Resources Development Canada

Publisher: [Hull, Quebec] : Minister of Human Resources Development

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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The discussion paper provides Canadians with a framework for participating in the reform of our social security system. The paper takes a close look at why the social security system is not working for many Canadians and for the country as a whole. It sets a direction for change and offers a range of options for redesigning federal programs in the areas of working, learning and security. These programs include Unemployment Insurance, employment development services, child care and federal support for post-secondary education and social assistance. This paper explores the education theme in detail reviewing post-secondary education in Canada, its evolution & current state along with international comparisons, & labour market outcomes. It also looks at the federal role & support provided to provinces & territories, students, & to institutions. The future of federal support is discussed followed by a look at the need for improved financial assistance to students. Finally, a new student aid program is outlined. It would meet tuition costs to maintain & improve accessibility to education.

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World

Author: Courtney C. Coile

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 022661929X

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In developed countries, men’s labor force participation at older ages has increased in recent years, reversing a decades-long pattern of decline. Participation rates for older women have also been rising. What explains these patterns, and the differences in them across countries? The answers to these questions are pivotal as countries face fiscal and retirement security challenges posed by longer life-spans. This eighth phase of the International Social Security project, which compares the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, documents trends in participation and employment and explores reasons for the rising participation rates of older workers. The chapters use a common template for analysis, which facilitates comparison of results across countries. Using within-country natural experiments and cross-country comparisons, the researchers study the impact of improving health and education, changes in the occupation mix, the retirement incentives of social security programs, and the emergence of women in the workplace, on labor markets. The findings suggest that social security reforms and other factors such as the movement of women into the labor force have played an important role in labor force participation trends.

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World

Author: David A. Wise

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-06-02

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 022644287X

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In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security programs and labor force participation, Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages explores people’s capacity to work beyond the current retirement age. It brings together an international team of scholars from twelve countries—Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States—to analyze this issue. Contributors find that many—but not all—individuals have substantial capacity to work at older ages. However, they also consider how policymakers might divide gains in life expectancy between years of work and retirement, as well as the main impediments to longer work life. They consider factors that influence the demand for older workers, as well as the evolution of health and disability status, which may affect labor supply from the older population.

Canadian Social Welfare Policy
Canadian Social Welfare Policy

Author: Institute of Public Administration of Canada

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780773506121

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Seven experts, representing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, discuss specific reform efforts in a number of social welfare policy areas and identify the jurisdictional fremework of policy-making in Canada's federal system as a factor of significantly affects these efforts.

The Welfare State in Canada
The Welfare State in Canada

Author: Allan Moscovitch

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0889206740

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The first major reference work of its kind in the social welfare field in Canada, this volume is a selected bibliography of works on Canadian social welfare policy. The entries in Part One treat general aspects of the origins, development, organization, and administration of the welfare state in Canada; included is a section covering basic statistical sources. The entries in Part Two treat particular areas of policy such as unemployment, disabled persons, prisons, child and family welfare, health care, and day care. Also included are an introductory essay reviewing the literature on social welfare policy in Canada, a "User's Guide," several appendices on archival materials, and an extensive chronology of Canadian social welfare legislation both federal and provincial. The volume will increase the accessibility of literature on the welfare state and stimulate increased awareness and further research. It should be of wide interest to students, researchers, librarians, social welfare policy analysts and administrators, and social work practitioners.

Report on Social Security for Canada
Report on Social Security for Canada

Author: Leonard Marsh

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2018-03-21

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0773553649

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Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world. It outlined what governments could do to ensure that all citizens could afford the food, clothing, and shelter necessary to participate fully in their community. Authored by Leonard Marsh for the wartime Federal Advisory Committee on Reconstruction, the report was the subject of enormous attention when it was presented to the House of Commons in March 1943. Drawing on the work of his mentor, William Beveridge, and of John Maynard Keynes, Marsh primarily recommended an employment program meant to ensure lower unemployment and higher incomes. His report also discussed family allowances to make certain that no child would go without, health care insurance, temporary assistance in case of illness, a pension plan, and various other social benefits related to maternity, disability, loss of employment, and death. Today Report on Social Security for Canada is seen as a foundational text for the Canadian social security system. In this edition Allan Moscovitch provides the historical context, an outline of Marsh’s accomplishments, and suggestions for how to enhance the welfare state and respond to the social needs of Canadians in the twenty-first century.

Social Security Pensions
Social Security Pensions

Author: C. Gillion

Publisher: International Labor Office

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13:

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By providing a balanced assessment and factual review of the praticalities and structure behind various pension schemes around the world, this book assists decision-makers in forming effective, viable pension policy.