CHANGING PENSION SYSTEMS IN UNITED STATES, EUROPE, ASIA, AND TRANSITION NATIONS

这是一个竞争性的延续申请，以延长项目2和3的 我们最初的P01提案。它将使用卢森堡收入研究数据， 研究老年人口经济福利的变化， 加拿大、澳大利亚、中欧、俄罗斯、西欧 欧洲、斯堪的纳维亚和亚洲的情况进行比较， 美国的该项目将使用现金和非现金收入的措施 并将探讨医疗保健费用在衡量 经济福祉。社会和私人养恤金制度能够 将探讨老年人的经济保障问题。该项目将 研究65岁及以上人士的经济福祉，特别是 强调老年妇女的地位。 我们将开始重新评估美国老年人的经济福利， 更新我们对20世纪80年代到90年代的原始分析， 在几个方面。我们将特别注意自付 老年人的医疗保健费用和其他形式的非现金收入， 我将用经真实的购买力调整后的美元来做一些比较 届采用比较静态微观模拟方法， 背景，以显示收入支持和医疗保健费用的变化如何能够 影响经济福祉。然后我们将探讨社会的作用 与职业养恤金和储蓄相比， 提供经济安全的各种组成部分：减轻贫穷， 收入替代和收入稳定。在这里，我们将特别 强调妇女在社会和私人退休方面的养恤金权利 收入系统。最后，我们将探讨经济上的差异- 在各种类型的延长生活安排中的老年人。

This is a competing continuation application to extend Projects 2 and 3 of our original P01 proposal. It will use Luxembourg Income Study data to look at changes in the economic well-being of older populations relative to the nonaged in Canada, Australia, Central Europe, Russia, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Asia, comparing their situation with that in the United States. The project will use both cash and noncash income measures and will explore the role of health care expenses in measurement of economic well-being. The ability of social and private pension systems to produce economic security in old age will be explored. The project will study the economic well-being of persons age 65 and over, with particular emphasis on the status of older women. We will begin reassessing the economic well-being of older Americans by updating our original analyses for the 1980s through the l990s and adding to it in several ways. We will pay special attention to out-of-pocket health care costs and other forms of noncash income among the aged and we will make a number of comparisons in real purchasing power-adjusted dollar terms. Comparative static microsimulation is employed in a crossnational context to show how changes in income support and health care expenses can affect economic well-being. We will then explore the role of social retirement systems as compared to occupational pensions and savings in providing various components of economic security: poverty alleviation, income replacement, and income stability. Here we will place special emphasis on women's pension rights in both social and private retirement income systems. Finally, we will explore the differences in economic well- being among the aged in various types of extended living arrangements.