Fertility Policies and Social Security Reforms in China

Social Security reforms in Japan.

With these laws, the Japanese government raised patient copayments for health care, initiated a preventive health program to monitor the physical well-being of persons over age 40, and introduced resource pooling among all health programs to cover expenditures for the elderly. It also realigned public pension programs to inaugurate a two-tiered system for the nation’s working population, and ma...

Fertility and Social Security

The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility: one by Barro and Becker (1989), and one inspired by Caldwell (1978, 1982) and developed by Boldrin and Jones (2002). In Barro and Becker’s model parents have childr...

Gender Analysis of Social Security Policies in Post- Revolutionary Iran

Introduction: Due to the fact that gender is important as the most basic pillar of individuals ’identities in all social relations, it is helpful to identify current deficiencies in policymaking. Method: The method used is qualitative content analysis in the  gender analysis approach. To this end, the documents and approvals of the main womenchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('3...

Gender Analysis of Social Security Policies in Post- Revolutionary Iran

Introduction: Due to the fact that gender is important as the most basic pillar of individuals ’identities in all social relations, it is helpful to identify current deficiencies in policymaking. Method: The method used is qualitative content analysis in the  gender analysis approach. To this end, the documents and approvals of the main womenchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('3...

Social Security Reforms in Southeast Asia By