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Social security and support of the elderly: the Western experience
— [paper presented at] the International Forum on Aging, Beijing, China, May 20-23, 1986 | | Author(s) | John Myles |
| Corporate Author | International Forum on Aging, Beijing, China, 1986; Gerontological Society of America |
| Journal title | In: Aging China: family, economics, and government policies in transition; edited by James H Schultz and Deborah Davis-Friedmann, 1987 |
| Publisher | Gerontological Society of America, [Washington, DC], 1987 |
| Pages | pp 194-212 |
| Keywords | Social security benefits. |
| Annotation | The pros and cons of social security systems as a vehicle for providing income support for older people are examined. The first part of the paper contrasts post-war income security programmes with an earlier social assistance tradition. Secondly, the author reviews some fairly conventional explanations of why real income security for the majority of workers requires centralised state administration. In the final section, he discusses the economic, social and political trade-offs frequently imputed in such an arrangement. (OFFPRINT). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990510001 A |
| Classmark | JH * |
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