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December 22, 2008
Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards, and Rebeca Wong, MA'83, PhD'87
The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
The book: As populations age and revenues diminish, government and private pension funds around the world are facing insolvency. The looming social security crisis is especially dire for women, who live longer than men but have worked less in the formal labor force. This groundbreaking study examines alternative social security systems and their disparate impacts on men and women. Emphasis is placed on the new multi-pillar systems that combine a publicly managed benefit and a mandatory private retirement savings plan. This book will force economists and policy makers to reexamine the features that enable social security systems to achieve desirable gender outcomes.
The author: Rebeca Wong is associate director of the Maryland Population Research Center and associate research scientist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland.
Posted by lingjiex at December 22, 2008 07:06 PM