SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELL-BEING AROUND THE WORLD

世界各地的社会保障和福祉

• 批准号: 6740568
• 负责人: DAVID A WISE
• 金额: $ 31.64万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6740568
• 关键词: Canada; Europe; Japan; aging; behavioral /social science research tag; disability insurance; employment /unemployment; human data; human middle age (35-64); human old age (65+); meta analysis; quality of life; retirement; socioeconomics

The vast differences in social security program provisions across countries have provided a natural laboratory for our ongoing international comparison project to study the influence of program provisions on individual behavior. The findings have made clear that social security provisions in most countries induce older workers to leave the labor force early, and that the large difference in retirement behavior across countries can be explained in large part by the provisions of these programs. The findings also show that much of the inducement to retire comes through programs nominally labeled "disability insurance," although it is evident that in many countries these programs essentially serve as routes to early retirement before the social security early retirement age. Beyond these results, there are several additional questions that we believe must be addressed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the broader implications of social security reform. The proposal is to continue international comparative analysis with our established team of participants. There are three aims: (1) To understand the relationship between social security system provisions and the well-being of the elderly--as well as the young. (2) To understand the relationship between social security system provisions and the employment of the young. (3) To understand how the relationship between health status and retirement varies with the provisions of social security (including disability insurance) programs, and to understand how the well-being of the disabled and the non-disabled elderly depends on program provisions. The prospect of comparable longitudinal data for the study of the health and retirement of older persons--through the nexus of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), and the forthcoming Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) surveys--makes such analysis especially timely.

各国社会保障计划条款的巨大差异为我们正在进行的国际比较项目提供了天然的实验室，以研究计划条款对个人行为的影响。研究结果表明，大多数国家的社会保障规定导致老年工人提前离开劳动力市场，各国退休行为的巨大差异在很大程度上可以解释为这些计划的规定。调查结果还表明，退休的诱因大部分来自名义上被称为“残疾保险”的计划，尽管很明显，在许多国家，这些计划基本上是在社会保障提前退休年龄之前提前退休的途径。除了这些结果之外，我们认为，为了更全面地了解社会保障改革的更广泛影响，还必须解决其他几个问题。建议继续与我们现有的参与者小组进行国际比较分析。目的有三：（1）了解 社会保障制度的规定与老年人和年轻人的福祉之间的关系。(2)了解社会保障制度规定与青年就业之间的关系。(3)了解健康状况和退休之间的关系如何随着社会保障（包括残疾保险）计划的规定而变化，并了解残疾和非残疾老年人的福利如何取决于计划规定。通过健康与退休研究、英国老龄问题纵向研究和即将进行的欧洲健康、老龄化和退休问题调查的相互联系，为老年人健康和退休问题研究提供可比纵向数据的前景，使得这种分析特别及时。