Social security in the 21st century
By: edited by Bertil Holmlund, Agmar Sandmo and Erling Steigum.
Contributors: Holmlund, Bertil, 1947-; Sandmo, Agnar.; Steigum, Erling.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Social security; Pensions; Economic security; Retirement income
Other titles: Scandinavian journal of economics.
Notes: Special issue: vol. 102, no. 3 (2000) of The Scandinavian journal of economics.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Economic and Social Security in the twenty-first century, with attention to Europe / Jacques H. Drèze; title: 2. Social Security reform and national wealth / John Laitner; title: 3. Adverse selection in the annuities market and the impact of privatizing Social Security / Jan Walliser; title: 4. The financial stability of notinal account pensions / Salvador Valdʹes-Prieto; title: 5. Pension reform during the demographic transition / Hans Fehr; title: 6. The welfare state, budgetary pressure and labour market shifts / Anthony B. Atkinson; title: 7. Unskilled migration: a burden or a boon for the welfare state? / Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka; title: 8. Early retirement and economic incentives / Erik Hernæs, Marte Sollie, Steinar Strøm; title: 9. The political economy of Social Security / Georges Casamatta, Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau; title: 10. A positive theory of Social Security / Guido Tabellini.