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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...
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The Economics of Fertility : A New Era
Doepke, Matthias; Hannusch, Anne; Kindermann, Fabian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and across families in a given country: a negative...
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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The Social Security Disability Program and Labor Force Participation
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1979
In the last twenty years the labor force participation rates of 45 to 54-year-old men have fallen 10.6 percentage points among non-whites and 4.4 percentage points among whites. I find that nearly half of this puzzling decline can be explained by the growth of the Social Security Disability...
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Social Security and Retirement around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summa...
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2011
the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … reforms were not prompted by changes in health status or by changes in the employment circumstances of older workers. We find …
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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement : Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's
Anderson, Patricia M. - 1997
This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...
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Determinants of Saving and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan
Yamada, Tetsuji - 1990
Japanese annual time series data covering the period 1951 to 1982 reveals that changes in the program of social security retirement benefits have substantial influence on personal saving and retirement behavior. The empirical results show that social security retirement benefits depress personal...
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Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan
Oshio, Takashi - 2018
countries. In the present study, we overview the employment trend of the elderly in Japan, and examine what factors have … less physically demanding jobs have allowed the elderly to stay longer in the labor force. However, elderly employment … been a key driver of the long-term trend change in elderly employment. A series of social security reforms have helped …
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Trends in Social Security Incentives in Belgium
Fraikin, Anne-Lore; Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
studies the impact of those incentive-based reforms on observed changes in older workers' employment patterns. We investigate …
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Social security programs and retirement around the world : working longer
Coile, Courtney (ed.); Milligan, Kevin (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2019
"This volume draws from the International Social Security project, which commenced more than two decades ago and which compares the social security and retirement experience in twelve developed countries. Both men and women are remaining longer in the workforce and this volume documents trends...
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