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Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Attar, Mayssun el - 2012

Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...

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The power of social pensions

Huang, Wei; Zhang, Chuanchuan - 2016

This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among the age-eligible people, the scheme provision leads to higher household income (18 percent) and...

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Long-term effects of individual placement and support services for disability benefits recipients with severe mental illnesses

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Spijkerman, Marcel; Zwinkels, Wim - 2020

This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...

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Sexual orientation and household savings : do homosexual couples save more?

Negrusa, Brighita; Oreffice, Sonia - 2010

We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and … their married counterparts. In a household savings model, we interpret this homosexual-specific differential as due to the … than married ones. Evidence from homeowners' ratio of mortgage payments to house value exhibits the same pattern of savings …

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Pensions, household saving, and welfare : a dynamic analysis

Blau, David - 2011

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … when the assumptions used in the empirical analysis are invalid? (3) How valuable are pensions to households? Simulation …

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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Koning, Pierre; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2023

Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...

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Running and jumping variables in RD designs : evidence based on race, socioeconomic status, and birth weights

Barreca, Alan I.; Guldi, Melanie; Lindo, Jason M.; … - 2010

Throughout the years spanned by the US Vital Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data (1983-2002), birth weights are measured most precisely for children of white and highly educated mothers. As a result, less healthy children, who are more likely to be of low socioeconomic status, are...

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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010

In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...

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