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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement - Introduction and Summary
Coile, Courtney; Milligan, Kevin; Wise, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This is the introduction and summary to the sixth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...
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The Great Recession, Decline and Rebound in Household Wealth for the Near Retirement Population
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
from Social Security and defined benefit pensions. For the most part, these are stable sums that ensured a major fraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951339
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The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
of pensions earned on jobs not covered by Social Security, a key determinant of the size of WEP and GPO adjustments. Also …
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Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement S...
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
pension benefits and DC balances for those approaching retirement, pensions account for more support in retirement than is … the contributions of pensions as measured in income and wealth data. A number of factors cause the contribution of … pensions to be understated in retirement income data, especially data from the CPS. One factor is a difference in methodology …
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Retirement, Early Retirement and Disability: Explaining Labor Force Participation after 55 in France
Behaghel, Luc; Roger, Muriel; Blanchet, Didier - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal retirement, disability insurance (DI) and...
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Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement: Micro-Simulation Evidence for Germany
Juerges, Hendrik; Thiel, Lars; Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
About 20% of German workers retire on disability pensions. Disability pensions provide fairly generous benefits for … retirement behavior, we then simulate changes in the generosity of disability pensions to understand how these changes would …
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Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye
Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The paper provides a perspective on the development of the Belgian disability insurance system. Using both survey and administrative data, it sketches a picture of the (changing) factors leading towards disability, as well as the outcomes in terms of program participation. The paper shows the...
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The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Studies using data from the early 1990s suggested that while the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeded in redistributing benefits from individuals with high earnings to individuals with low earnings, it was much less successful in redistributing benefits from households with high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323436
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How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses asset and labor market data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to investigate how the recent "Great Recession" has affected the wealth and retirement of those in the population who were just approaching retirement age at the beginning of the recession, a potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353493
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The Effect of Uncertain Labor Income and Social Security on Life-cycle Portfolios
Mitchell, Olivia; Maurer, Raimond; Rogalla, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper examines how labor income volatility and social security benefits can influence lifecycle household portfolios. We examine how much the individual optimally saves and where, taking into account liquid financial wealth and annuities, and stocks as well as bonds. Higher labor income...
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