Social Insurance Research Network

     
 

The Social Insurance Research Network (SIRN) is directed by Margaret Simms, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and President, National Academy of Social Insurance.

 

Announcements and Job Postings: SIRN Professional Announcements is published weekly and includes announcements including conferences, professional meetings, calls for papers, and Professional Job Listings. Please contact Dana_Hutchison@SSRN.Com for more information.

Research Paper Series: Distribute your school's working papers. Social Insurance Research Network Research Paper Series offers your institution a way to distribute the research of your faculty and staff. Creating a Research Paper Series (RPS) for your institution will give you the most exposure for your faculty's work and is an excellent way to create awareness and disseminate your research. Please contact Cathy_Blocher@ssrn.com for more information.

Professional Directory: We encourage the readers of our journals to communicate directly with other members of the SSRN Community regarding their own and other's research. To help facilitate this interchange, we make contact information for each author available on our web site. To obtain contact information, you can search for an author or click on an author's name anywhere in our system.

SSRN's Commitments to Users: SSRN's objective is to provide worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost. We allow authors to upload papers without charge, and any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable for free, worldwide. SSRN also provides free subscriptions to all of our abstracting journals to users in developing countries on request. We allow publishers and other institutions to charge users for downloads, but insist that the price for such papers on SSRN cannot exceed the lowest non-subscriber price for these papers anywhere on the web. The vast majority of downloads of papers from the SSRN eLibrary are free.

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The 80,000 authors who have contributed their research to SSRN have trusted us with their intellectual output. We are committed to fulfilling that trust. We are authors, and we respect, above all, our authors' rights in their material. We have never and will never behave opportunistically with our authors' material. You have our word on this.

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