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Answering "Is Social security payments received by a retired factory worker included in this year's GDP?"
no, because they are not payments for currently produced goods or services.
GDP can be thought of as CIGXM.C: Consumption - private spending by consumersI: Investment - includes equipment, inventory, and new homesG: Government spending - does not include transfer paymentsX: Exports - goods or services that an entity chooses to produce for another entityM: Imports - goods and services from another entity (this combined with the X term is sometimes referred to as "net exports").Transfer payments: social security, welfare, stocks, bonds, and any other transfer of funds in which nothing is producedUsing this method, the equation for GDP is GDP=C+I+G+(X-M).
transfer payments are about of U.S. domestic output as of 2009
used good sales are not included in GDP, because it is treated as asset transfer.
Answering "Is Social security payments received by a retired factory worker included in this year's GDP?"
no, because they are not payments for currently produced goods or services.
they are difficult to measure
GDP can be thought of as CIGXM.C: Consumption - private spending by consumersI: Investment - includes equipment, inventory, and new homesG: Government spending - does not include transfer paymentsX: Exports - goods or services that an entity chooses to produce for another entityM: Imports - goods and services from another entity (this combined with the X term is sometimes referred to as "net exports").Transfer payments: social security, welfare, stocks, bonds, and any other transfer of funds in which nothing is producedUsing this method, the equation for GDP is GDP=C+I+G+(X-M).
transfer payments are about of U.S. domestic output as of 2009
used good sales are not included in GDP, because it is treated as asset transfer.
Transfer Payments
Transfer Payments
Transfer Payments In the US, Social Security is not, strictly speaking, a transfer payment; it's social insurance. Welfare payments and Medicaid may also be described as entitlement programs.
Because they do not involve current production
Transfer Payments
Multiplier Effect