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Funding Social Security

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  • Seidman,Laurence S.

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A serious consideration of the debate on social security reform that is taking place in many countries around the world. Professor Seidman advocates the concept of 'funded social security' as a middle position between pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) social security and privatized social security, and constitutes a politically strategic alternative. His analysis covers two distinct components, fund accumulation and portfolio diversification. The concept of funded social security uses a mix of payroll taxes and portfolio investment income to finance benefits. With funded social security, the government contracts with private investment firms to manage the portfolio of the social security trust fund. It is entirely a defined-benefit plan without any individual defined-contribution accounts; each retiree's benefit is linked by a legislated formula to the retiree's own wage history. The benefit is an annuity - an annual benefit that continues as long as the retiree (or spouse) lives - and is automatically adjusted annually for inflation.

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  • Seidman,Laurence S., 1999. "Funding Social Security," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521652452, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521652452
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    1. H. Yigit Aydede, 2007. "Social Security, Intergenerational Transfers, and Saving: New Evidence from an Emerging Country," NFI Working Papers 2007-WP-16, Indiana State University, Scott College of Business, Networks Financial Institute, revised Jul 2007.
    2. Yigit Aydede, 2008. "Aggregate consumption function and public social security: the first time-series study for a developing country, Turkey," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(14), pages 1807-1826.
    3. H. Yigit Aydede, 2007. "Saving and Social Security Wealth: A Case of Turkey," NFI Working Papers 2007-WP-03, Indiana State University, Scott College of Business, Networks Financial Institute.
    4. Kenneth A. Lewis & Laurence S. Seidman, 2004. "Managing A Bulge: Policy Options for Social Security," Public Finance Review, , vol. 32(4), pages 382-403, July.

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