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"Double Dipping" : the Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement
Burtless, Gary; Hausman, Jerry A. - 2021
We consider the retirement behavior of civilian employees of the United States government. Unlike previous studies … the financial aspects of individual retirement decisions with a reasonable degree of precision. A large fraction of civil … the expected wait until the pension commences affect the timing of retirement from the Federal service. (2) The rate of …
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"Double Dipping" : The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement
Burtless, Gary - 1981
We consider the retirement behavior of civilian employees of the United States government. Unlike previous studies … the financial aspects of individual retirement decisions with a reasonable degree of precision. A large fraction of civil … the expected wait until the pension commences affect the timing of retirement from the Federal service. (2) The rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478313
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The Sensitivity of Proposed Social Security Benefit Formula Changes to Lifetime Earnings Definitions
Waldron, Hilary - 2017
Several Social Security proposals have included benefit formula changes that apply to earners above a specified percentage of the combined male and female (unisex) lifetime earnings distribution. The unisex distribution is an average of two disparate groups with large lifetime differences in...
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Bequests and Social Security with Uncertain Lifetimes
Abel, Andrew B. - 2021
The fact that consumers do not know in advance the dates at which they will die effects their individual consumption and portfolio decisions. In general, some consumers will end up leaving bequests at death, even if they have no bequest motive, simply because they happen to die at a time when...
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Bequests and Social Security With Uncertain Lifetimes
Abel, Andrew B. - 1984
The fact that consumers do not know in advance the dates at which they will die effects their individual consumption and portfolio decisions. In general, some consumers will end up leaving bequests at death, even if they have no bequest motive, simply because they happen to die at a time when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477718
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Pensions for State and Local Government Workers Not Covered by Social Security : Do Benefits Meet Federal Standards?
Quinby, Laura - 2020
Security in 2018. Retirement systems for non-covered workers have become less generous in recent years, and a few plans could … sources to assess whether state and local governments currently satisfy the federal standards for retirement plan sufficiency …
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Pensions for state and local government workers not covered by social security : do benefits meet federal standards?
Quinby, Laura D.; Aubry, Jean-Pierre; Munnell, Alicia … - In: Social security bulletin 80 (2020) 3, pp. 1-29
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016 - March 2016, revised May 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
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