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How Do the U.S and Canadian Social Safety Nets Compare for Women and Children?
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2017
countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …
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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summa...
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2011
This is the introduction and summary to the fifth 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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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011
Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
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The Expanding Social Safety Net
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2011
Inflation-adjusted spending on means-tested subsidies have increased sharply since 2007, and most of this growth was due to changes in eligibility rules, and increases in subsidies per eligible person, rather than increases in the number of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession...
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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. - 2011
husbands to their own lower earning wives. In addition, spouse and survivor benefits accrue disproportionately to women from … in two earner households, and the growth in women's labor market activity and earnings, the Social Security system now …, women enjoyed a more rapid growth of labor force participation, hours of work and covered earnings than men. This increased …
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Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2011
This paper presents the results of a field experiment in which a sample of older workers was randomized between a treatment group that was given information about key Social Security provisions and a control group that was not. The experiment was designed to examine whether it is possible to...
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Disability and Social Security Reforms : The French Case
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...
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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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Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2012
This paper calculates monthly time series for the overall safety net's statutory marginal labor income tax rate as a function of skill and marital status. Marginal tax rates increased significantly for all groups between 2007 and 2009, and dramatically so for unmarried household heads. The...
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How is Economic Hardship Avoided by Those Retiring Before the Social Security Entitlement Age?
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2012
men, pension and annuity income is important while for women, spousal income helps most to get them over the line …
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