Tag: income maintenence

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Income Maintenance in Old Age: What Can be Learned from Cross-National Comparisons?

Working Paper by and

May 1, 2001

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to review the recent evidence on the antipoverty effectiveness and other characteristics of income maintenance systems for the elderly in the rich nations of the world. As we move toward Social Security reform in the United States, we do so knowing that a comparatively high fraction of our…