This treatment of the economics of social security examines the aims and operations of state social security systems, concentrating on the social "insurance" systems--pensions, unemployment, and sickness insurance. The authors analyze the rationale for a social insurance system, the appropriate level of state intervention, and the criteria used to judge a system's performance. The recent literature on the economic theory of insurance and on the labor supply, alternative methods of finance, and income reditribution is thoroughly discussed.
- ISBN10 0198772289
- ISBN13 9780198772286
- Publish Date 28 November 1985 (first published 14 November 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English