The Elderly and the Rural Social Security System

The United States population has grown older. Increases in life expectancy and a low fertility rate have dramatically changed the composition of the population. This change in the age composition of the population has led to concerns over the viability of the Social Security system. One way to increase the solvency of the Social Security system would be to increase participation rates among the elderly.

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Evolution of the rural social security system in a large country over 35 years: institutional transformation and the Chinese experience

China Agricultural Economic Review ◽

10.1108/caer-08-2021-0163 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Xuan Huo ◽

Mingang Lin

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Social Security System ◽

Research Literature ◽

Security System ◽

Institutional Transformation ◽

Large Country ◽

Content Type ◽

Policy Transformation ◽

The Rural Social Security

Purpose This paper aims to review the institutional evolution of China's rural social security system in the past 35 years, focusing on major policy transformations of the rural social security system in a large country, and extract the Chinese experience on developing rural social security.Design/methodology/approach This paper systematically reviews the evolution of rural social security system via organizing policy documents, key events and research literature on the construction of rural social security since the Reform and Opening-up.Findings First, institutional transformation is a profound change in China's rural social security system; second, policy transformation has taken place in the main areas of China's rural social security system, including rural endowment insurance, medical insurance and social assistance; third, the policy evolution of China's rural social security system has a unique experience in a large country.Originality/value China is the country with the largest rural population in the world. The process and experience of transforming the social security system in the vast rural areas of China have important value and reference significance for other developing countries.

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Rentenreformen 1998–2001: Eine (vorläufige) Bestandsaufnahme

Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik ◽

10.1111/1468-2516.00055 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 319-334 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christoph Borgmann ◽

Pascal Krimmer ◽

Bernd Raffelhüschen

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Labour Market ◽

The Elderly ◽

Social Security System ◽

Security System ◽

Future Generations ◽

Generational Accounting ◽

German Government ◽

Reform Proposal ◽

Recent Reform

Abstract Since the current German government has stepped into office, there have been numerous corrections to the `pay-as-you-go-financed’ Social Security system. Adjustments to both the pressure of demographics and the labour market will have severe intergenerational impacts, which are reported with the help of generational accounting. Our findings suggest that the recent reform proposals do in fact reduce the burden on future generations. In the early version of the reform proposal mainly the younger generations paid the price, whereas the version which has been passed into law shifts most of the burden to the elderly.

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SISTEM PERLINDUNGAN SOSIAL JEPANG: MENUJU NEGARA WELFARE PLURALISM

Sosio Informa ◽

10.33007/inf.v11i1.1212 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mu'man Nuryana

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Social Insurance ◽

Present Situation ◽

The Elderly ◽

Social Security System ◽

Security System ◽

Pension Insurance ◽

Social Security Systems ◽

Security Systems ◽

Welfare Pluralism

(Social ProtectionSystem in Jepang for Welfare Pluralism Country) - This article attempts to describe social security system in Japan, with special emphasize on its objectives, purposes and functions. However, Japanese social security systems will be looked at the present situation in order to know how they have been established. Indeed, social security system in Japan is a general expression that includes the systems in the following fields: social insurance systems including medical and pension insurance programs, public assistance systems to ensure the minimum level of sound and cultural living, social welfare systems for children, mothers and children, people of disabilities and for the elderly, medical care systems, and the systems for public and environmental health. And there are objectives and functions for each social security system in. A recognition into the objectives and functions of social security systems in Japan will help us in analyzing the present situation of, evaluating, or examining the desirable future of social security in Indonesia.

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