The U.S. Social Security System: What Does Political Sustainability Imply?

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 698-730

  Galasso, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Unfunded social security system; political equilibria; labor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141458527     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1998.0049     Document Type: Article

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