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The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs
Baker, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Milligan, Kevin - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
Like most other developed nations, Canada has a large income security system for retirement that provides significant … of appropriate data. We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security (IS … IS system have large and statistically significant impacts on retirement. This suggests that program reform can play some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005404394
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Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada
Baker, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
employment behavior to account for enhanced retirement benefits, the positive impact of the benefits may be crowded out. We …, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases … retirement benefits diminish income poverty rates, but have no discernable impact on consumption poverty measures. This could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710224
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Social Security and Retirement
Coile, Courtney; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth … of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives … on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829085
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Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.
Diamond, Peter A.; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
of the interaction between the SS system and retirement behavior. We begin by documenting historical trends in labor … the relationship between SS and retirement. Finally, we present results of a simulation model which measures the implicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575440
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Disability Insurance Rejection Rates and the Labor Supply of Older Workers
Gruber, Jonathan; Kubik, Jeffrey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
Disability Insurance (DI), which provides income support to disabled workers, has been criticized for inducing a large fall in the labor force participation rate of older workers. We study the effects of one policy response designed to address this moral hazard problem: raising the rate at which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575613
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Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?
Gruber, Jonathan; Orszag, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
The Social Security earnings test, a version of which still applies to those ages 62-64, reduces immediate payments to beneficiaries whose labor income exceeds a given threshold. Although benefits are subsequently increased to compensate for any such reduction, the earnings test is typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580067
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The retirement incentive effects of Canada's Income Security programs
Baker, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Milligan, Kevin - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 36 (2003) 2, pp. 261-290
Canada has a large Income Security system for retirement that provides significant and widely varying disincentives to … work at older ages.We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security system … significant impacts on retirement.This suggests that program reform can play a role in responses to fiscal pressures.We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005608960
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Social Security and Retirement
Coile, Courtney; Gruber, Jonathan - 2011
A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth … of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives … on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036681
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Social security programs and retirement around the world : micro-estimation
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002582617