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The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior : Introduction and Summary
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Coile, Courtney - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The International Social Security (ISS) project compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries to study Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The project was launched in the mid 1990s and was motivated by decades of decline in the labor force participation rate of...
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Pension Reform, Incentives to Retire and Retirement Behavior : Empirical Evidence from Swedish Micro-data
Laun, Lisa; Palme, Mårten - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates to what extent the 1998 reform of Sweden's public old-age pension system contributed to the increase in extensive margin labor supply among older workers seen in the country in recent decades. We use a large data set containing all males and females born in Sweden between...
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Retirement Benefit Distributions for California Educators
Clark, Robert L.; Pelletier, Denis; Ritter, Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Distribution choices by individuals retiring from CalSTRS are examined for participants that retired between 2016 and 2023. Women are much more likely to select a member-only annuity while a larger proportion of men select a J&S annuity that provide survivor benefits. Being married is a dominant...
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Do Older Adults Accurately Forecast Their Social Security Benefits?
Seiter, Grant M.; Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How accurate are older people's expectations about their future Social Security benefits? Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, we compare respondents' observed Social Security claiming ages and benefits with subjective expectations provided during their 50s and early 60s. We...
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Target Retirement Fund : A Variant on Target Date Funds that uses Deferred Life Annuities rather than Bonds to Reduce Risk as Retirement Approaches
Shoven, John B.; Walton, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper evaluates a new variant of the popular target date funds used in employer-based retirement savings plans. We call this new variant a "target retirement plan." Instead of increasing the allocation to bond funds as retirement approaches, a target retirement fund gradually purchases...
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Boomerang Children and Parental Retirement Outcomes
Seiter, Grant M.; Lopez, Mary J.; Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who "boomerang" back home impact their parents in their pre-retirement and post-retirement years. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of...
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Relationship between Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan
Oshio, Takashi; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oishi, Akiko Sato - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study examines how elderly employment is associated with social security programs and how it responds to recent reforms in Japan. To this end, we employed a rich and longitudinal dataset of middle-aged and older individuals collected between 2005 and 2018. By incorporating various factors...
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An Analysis of Benefit Distribution Options Selected by Individuals Covered by the PBGC
Clark, Robert L.; Pelletier, Denis; Ritter, Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation becomes the trustee for private defined benefit plans that have defaulted. The PBGC pays retirement benefits as provided by the plan and that are consistent with federal guidelines concerning the type and amounts of distributions. In response to a...
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Trends in Social Security Incentives in Belgium
Fraikin, Anne-Lore; Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In Belgium, a series of social security reforms have been implemented over the years with the overarching goal of increasing the labor force participation through better work incentives. Using individual-level administrative data, the paper studies the impact of those incentive-based reforms on...
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Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers through the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Goda, Gopi Shah; Jackson, Emilie; Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to … expiration of expanded unemployment insurance, we find that the loss of these additional financial supports is associated with a … drop in older adult unemployment rates and an increase in Social Security Disability Insurance claiming. Social Security …
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