A Framework for Analyzing and Comparing Social Security Policies

Abstract:     
This paper provides a framework for evaluating and comparing Social Security policies by delineating 11 broad areas of consideration and highlighting some of the relevant questions within these areas. This framework is not a comprehensive list of all considerations but is intended to provide a feel for their complexity and to highlight some of their most popularly recognized interactive possibilities. As the first report to be delivered in the course of the Employee Benefit Research Institute's Social Security Reform Analysis Project, this paper sets the theoretical framework in which to place the forthcoming technical results from the EBRI/SSASIM2 Policy Simulation Model. This model will produce stochastically generated data regarding specific reforms; these data will comprise the content of the next EBRI Issue Brief on Social Security.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 24

Keywords: Social Security financing, Social Security modeling, Social Security reform

JEL Classification: H55

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