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Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2011

Eligible participants in the U.S. Social Security system may claim benefits anytime from age 62-70, with benefit levels actuarially adjusted based on the claiming age. This paper shows that individual intentions with regard to Social Security claiming ages are sensitive to how the early versus...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2010

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 of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Using Vignettes to Improve Understanding of Social Security and Annuities

Samek, Anya - 2020

Evidence shows that people have difficulty understanding complex aspects of retirement planning, which leads them to under-utilize annuities and claim Social Security benefits earlier than is optimal. To target this problem, we developed vignettes about the consequences of different...

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Social Security Programs and Employment at Older Ages in the Netherlands

de Vos, Klaas - 2018

There have been a vast number of social security reforms aimed at increasing employment at older ages over the last two decades in the Netherlands. These reforms mainly lead to more stringent eligibility criteria for, and reduced generosity of, social security programs. Our empirical evidence...

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Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries : Market Distortions or Efficient Institutions?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

paid labor. 3) In many countries minimum wages "spill-over" to the unregulated sector, producing spikes in the wage … model in which rural-urban migration adjust to produce a positive relation between unemployment and wages across regions and … sectors, wages and unemployment are inversely related by the "wage curve". 7) Unions affect non-wage outcomes as well as wage …

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Using Vignettes to Improve Understanding of Social Security and Annuities

Samek, Anya - 2019

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Social Security and Retirement in the Netherlands

Kapteyn, Arie; de Vos, Klaas - 2022

Compared to other industrialized countries, the labor force participation of the elderly in the Netherlands is very low. Moreover, it has fallen very fast over recent years. We discuss the incentives for employees to retire, arising from public schemes such as social security and disability...

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Anticipated and unanticipated wage changes, wage risk, and intertemporal labor supply

Pistaferri, Luigi - In: Journal of labor economics 21 (2003) 3, pp. 729-754

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Collective bargaining laws, threat effects, and the determination of police compensation

Ichniowski, Casey - In: Journal of labor economics 7 (1989) 2, pp. 191-209

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The Effects of Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings at the Establishment Where They Work

Barth, Erling - 2017

This paper uses linked establishment-firm-employee data to examine the relationship between the scientists and engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers in industry are employed in establishments producing goods...

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