TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN MODEL OF SOCIAL SECURITY
https://doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2015-6-151-161
Abstract
The article analyzes the key directions of transforming the American model of social security in the light of demographic and social challenges; it shows basic problem areas in social and labour field, trends in state policy in the sphere of labour, support of small business, aid, pension strategies. Serious attention is paid to creation of new jobs, raising efficiency of struggle against youth unemployment, strengthening the role of social partners in education and vocational training. The author points out to the dynamics of the poverty level, which for the first time since 2006 showed decline in 2013 and at the same time to the growing inequality in income.
About the Author
Lyudmila F. Lebedeva
Institute for USA and Canada Studies of Russian Academy of Science
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Center for Social-Economic Studies of the Institute for USA and Canada Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences
2/3 Khlebny Lane, Moscow, 123995, Russian Federation
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Lebedeva L.F. TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN MODEL OF SOCIAL SECURITY. Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. 2015;(6):151-161. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2015-6-151-161
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