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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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Social Security Administration (SSA)

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [27 February 2012]

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2010-2011/americas/index.html

[go to this URL for Country Summaries]

or

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2010-2011/americas/ssptw11americas.pdf

[full-text, 201 pages]

[excerpt]

This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas. The combined findings of this series, which also includes volumes on Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa, are published at six-month intervals over a two-year period. Each volume highlights features of social security programs in the particular region.

The information contained in these volumes is crucial to our efforts, and those of researchers in other countries, to review different ways of approaching social security challenges that will enable us to adapt our social security systems to the evolving needs of individuals, households, and families. These efforts are particularly important as each nation faces major demographic changes, especially the increasing number of aged persons, as well as economic and fiscal issues.

Table of Contents

Guide to Reading the Country Summaries, including:

•Table 1. Types of social security programs

•Table 2. Types of mandatory systems for retirement income

•Table 3. Demographic and other statistics related to social security, 2011

•Table 4. Contribution rates for social security programs, 2011

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