Monday, October 24, 2011
MPRC Seminar: "The Puzzle of Immigration and Population Projections"
Description:
MARYLAND POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER presents a seminar:
KAREN WOODROW-LAFIELD, Research Professor, Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland
About the talk: The Old-Age Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Disability Insurance
(OASDI) Trust Fund programs account for about one-third of all federal spending and provide a safety net for elderly, disabled, orphans and widows, and the poor. This seminar reviews treatment of immigration in the actuarial models, recent immigration, recommendations on immigration assumptions, and likely impacts based on the Report to the Social Security Advisory Board of the 2011 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods, following previous panels of 1999, 2003, and 2007.
{Will appear in FYI on Oct 20, 2011
Start Time:
12:00 PM
End Time:
1:30 PM
Room:
0124B
Venue:
Cole Student Activities Building
Common Location Name:
Other
Web Address:
www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/event_1315592881200
Other Contact Information:
Tiffany L Pittman
MPRC
+1 301 405 6403
tpittman@umd.edu
