A Guideline for Social Security and Social Insurance Research
You will be assigned a country after your exam on Tuesday, June 9, for researching the provision of their Social Insurance Program.
Your paper must include the following items, in the sequence that follows, in order for your submission to be considered for grading.
For your assigned country collect the following Data/other information:
1. Social Security Expenditures: A historical perspective and a graph for it.
2. Social Security Payment system (Pay-as-you go or fully funded or a mixture), describe.
3. Data for Dependency Ratio (demographic data): changes over time. Show the data on a graph and describe the trend.
4. Data for Income Distribution among the Aged Population (the beneficiaries’).
5. Describe the Structure of Social Security Tax: Employers and Employees contributions. Need also historical data for this.
6. Collect Data for the Structure of Social Security Benefits (a measure such as the GRR) and show the re-distributional aspect of it (if present) on a graph.
7. Retirement Age and Benefits eligibility, current and historical.
8. Facts and data for Benefits for Family Relations: Spouses/domestic partners Benefits, Dependent Children’s Benefit, Widowers’ Benefits, etc.
9. Unemployment Insurance Benefits Program.
10. Health Care Coverage for the eligible recipients and their dependents.
11. Social Security Reforms: pending or implemented.
12. Problems and issues with the system.