The Federal Advisory Council of the Bureau of Employment Security at its meeting this past September adopted resolutions, given in full in the following pages, on the employment service and on unemployment insurance. The conference, which was the Council’s first since the Bureau’s transfer from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Labor, heard brief statements from the Secret...

OBJECTIVE The study examined the relationship of self-rated health and self-rated economic situation with depressed mood, and life satisfaction as mediator of this relationship among older adults in Costa Rica. METHOD A longitudinal study was conducted with a subsample (N = 1,618) from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). Self-rated health, self-rated economic situation...

In economic management, we often use some (divisible) private resources to cooperative. Fuzzy coalitions always be used to describe this situation in cooperative fuzzy games. In this paper, we proposed two new solution concepts in NTU cooperative fuzzy games, and discussed their properties.

In this paper we compare several types of economic dependency ratios for a selection of European countries. These dependency ratios take not only into account the demographic structure of the population, but also the differences in age-specific economic behaviour such as labour market activity, income and consumption. In simulations where we combine patterns of age-specific economic behaviour w...

In 1935, when the Social Security Act was passed, little was known about the economic position of the Nation’s older men and women. Today, through surveys of insurance bene$ciaries conducted by the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, much more is known. The evaluation of the economic situation of aged beneficiaries that is presented in the following pages is based on the national benefic...

This article examines the current social and economic performance of South African national integral grouping SADC (Southern African Development Community). It analyzes the latest economic development in the SADC countries by looking at the GDP development and the development of several fundamental socio-political indicators that have an important impact on the stability and sustainable develop...