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An Analysis of the Health and Retirement Status of the Elderly
Sickles, Robin C. - 1984
in this paper we specify and estimate a structural limited dependent variable model with which we study both the health … endogeneously determined health status affects the probability of retirement and how changes in social security benefits and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477629
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463404
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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : Working Longer – Introduction and Summary
Coile, Courtney - 2018
In the two decades since the project began, the dramatic decline in men's labor force participation has ended and been replaced by sharply rising participation rates. Older women's participation has been rising as well. In this eighth phase of the project, we explore this phenomenon of working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453133
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Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle
Deaton, Angus - 2000
This paper examines the consequences of social security reform for the inequality of consumption across individuals. The idea is that inequality is at least in part the result of individual risk in earnings or asset returns, the effects of which accumulate over time to increase inequality within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471205
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The Distributional Impact of Social Security
Hurd, Michael D. - 1983
In the first part of the paper we report estimated transfers in the Social Security system for the Retirement History Survey sample.We define transfers to be the difference between the expected presentvalue of benefits less the present value of taxes paid in, where the latter is adjusted for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477946
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Uncovering the American Dream : Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937
Kopczuk, Wojciech - 2007
This paper uses Social Security Administration longitudinal earnings micro data since 1937 to analyze the evolution of inequality and mobility in the United States. Earnings inequality follows a U-shape pattern, decreasing sharply up to 1953 and increasing steadily afterwards. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465307
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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security : Income Versus Wealth
Gustman, Alan - 2016
Health and Retirement Study and covers individuals aged 69 to 79 in 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456253
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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security : An Exploratory Analysis
Gustman, Alan - 2014
W2 earnings. The empirical analysis is based on data from the Health and Retirement Study. These means tests would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458119
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Small differences that matter : labor markets and income maintenance in Canada and the United States
Card, David E. (contributor); Card, David E. (ed.);  … - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013481067
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Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health
Deaton, Angus - 1999
What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health …'s health is related to his or her status within a reference group as measured by income relative to the group mean. Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471653