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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Rethinking Social Insurance

  • Martin Feldstein
American Economic Review
vol. 95, no. 1, March 2005
(pp. 1–24)
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Citation

Feldstein, Martin. 2005. "Rethinking Social Insurance." American Economic Review, 95 (1): 1–24. DOI: 10.1257/0002828053828545

JEL Classification

  • H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
  • H53 National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
  • H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
  • I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
  • I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
  • J65 Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings