opportunities by studying job changes at older ages. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, it compares wages, benefits … less likely to receive pension coverage or health benefits after they moved to new jobs. Although the findings do not raise …

several alternative systems of Social Security auxiliary benefits. We specifically consider earnings sharing, a system in … Social Security benefits. We also consider whether other changes to Social Security’s benefit computations — like caregiver … credits, minimum benefits, and more modest changes to spouse/survivor benefits — could improve program adequacy and horizontal …