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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World : Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Banks, James (contributor); Behaghel, Luc (contributor); … - 2015

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability insurance programs can also play a significant...

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World : Fiscal Implications of Reform

Baker, Michael (contributor); Bingley, Paul (contributor); … - 2007

The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in life styles enable retirees to live longer than ever before, the stress on national budgets will increase...

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Social Security and Retirement around the World

Blanchet, Didier (contributor); … - 1998

What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers...

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Research Findings in the Economics of Aging

Atlas, Steven J. (contributor); … - 2010

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject....

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Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment

Auerbach, Alan J. (contributor); Beshears, John (contributor) - 2009

Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate. It also explores how these ongoing trends will affect future beneficiaries, under both the current social...

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World : The Relationship to Youth Employment

Baker, Michael (contributor); Banks, James (contributor); … - 2010

Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in the population, the ratio of retirees to...

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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012

Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016

New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …

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Household savings in Germany

Börsch-Supan, Axel; Reil-Held, Anette; Rodepeter, Ralf; … - 2000

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Quality of statistical match of household budget survey and SILC for Turkey

Albayrak, Özlem; Masterson, Thomas - 2017

This paper presents the quality analysis of the statistical matching conducted for a research study on household … consumption behavior, household indebtedness, and inequality for Turkey. The match has been done for four years (2005, 2008, 2009 …, and 2012) of Household Budget Surveys (HBS) and the Survey for Income and Living Conditions (SILC). The aim of the …

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Aging, pension reform, and capital flows : a multi-country simulation model

Börsch-Supan, Axel; Ludwig, Alexander; Winter, Joachim - 2005

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