| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w8488 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 8488 |
| Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s | |
| Douglas W. Elmendorf; Jeffrey B. Liebman; David W. Wilcox | |
| 发表日期 | 2001-09-01 |
| 出版年 | 2001 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper reviews the course of fiscal policy and Social Security policy during the 1990s. The 1990s witnessed two fundamental changes in U.S. fiscal policy: a dramatic improvement in the current and projected budget balance, and a shift to a new political consensus in favor of balancing the budget excluding Social Security rather than the unified budget. The dramatic improvement in the budget outlook stemmed both from favorable developments in the economic environment and from deliberate policy actions that reduced budget deficits and later did not spend down the surpluses. In contrast, the 1990s did not witness significant changes in Social Security policy, although alternative visions of Social Security reform received tremendous analytic and popular attention. The 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security presented three reform plans that placed important emphasis on additional prefunding. Each involved some form of investment in equities either centrally, through the trust fund, or in a decentralized manner, through individual accounts. Late in the decade, with the emergence of on-budget surpluses, the possibility of general revenue contributions to the Social Security system came under serious consideration. In the end, President Clinton decided to pursue Social Security reform based on general revenue contributions to the trust fund and centralized investment in equities rather than creating individual accounts, but his proposal was not adopted. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8488 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566092 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Douglas W. Elmendorf,Jeffrey B. Liebman,David W. Wilcox. Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s. 2001. |
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