What are the aims of social security and assistance provisions?Are they effective?Why do countries differ in the design and effectiveness of theirsocial security systems?This introductory textbook provides a foundation for the ...
Addressing the concern that SSA's current procedures are consistent with current scientific and professional practices, this book evaluates the process used by SSA to determine eligibility for these benefits.
World Social Protection Report 2017-19: Universal Social Protection to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
This text provides a practical tool to enhance and modernize social protection systems while maintaining this balance.
This 2018 edition also features two special themes †“ Social Assistance and Ageing, focusing on the role of old-age social pensions, and Adaptive Social Protection, focusing on what makes SSN systems/programs adaptive to various shocks.
This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies.
Disappointing poverty trends suggest limitations to employment-centred welfare reform and downward pressures on the redistributive capacity of welfare states.
This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security.
Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, ...
Pension reforms in former transition economies aimed to fiscal sustainability and market economy objectives.