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Social Security and Gender Inequality

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  • Liudmila Malyshava
  • B. Oak McCoy

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This inquiry examines the role of federal policy in gender inequality using the principles of institutional adjustment (Foster 1981; Bush 1987) in the context of the Veblenian dichotomy of habit formation. Specifically, the authors assert that Social Security, though exclusive at its inception in 1935, has undergone significant institutional adjustment. Today, Social Security plays a determining role in providing the appropriate institutional space for not only increasing economic security for older women, but also for reducing gender inequality overall.

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  • Liudmila Malyshava & B. Oak McCoy, 2024. "Social Security and Gender Inequality," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_1045, Levy Economics Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:lev:wrkpap:wp_1045
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    1. Timothy M. Smeeding, 1999. "Social Security Reform: Improving Benefit Adequacy and Economic Security for Women," Center for Policy Research Reports 16, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
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      • B25 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
      • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches
      • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
      • N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy

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