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Leaving the labor market early in Sweden : learning from international experience
Bengtsson, Mats G.; König, Stefanie; Schönbeck, Simon; … - 2022
It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from the labour market. However, the regulations have become...
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Working beyond 65 in Ireland
Nolan, Anne; Barrett, Alan - 2018
Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...
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Calculating the redistributive impact of pension systems in LAC
Altamirano, Alvaro; Oliveri, María Laura; Bosch Mossi, … - 2023
average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they provide pensions above what workers would have obtained by investing … replacement rates (pensions relative to earnings) for low-income workers. Despite this progressivity, in some countries, absolute … much more progressive, but still, because low-income workers do not qualify for minimum pensions, between 50-60% of …
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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute
Forteza, Alvaro - 2015
Social security programs generally seek to provide insurance and to reduce poverty and inequality. Providing insurance requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality, programs must redistribute income, but...
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Social Security and Gender in Uruguay : An Analysis of the Differences in Pension Access (Seguridad Social y Género en Uruguay: Un Análisis de las Diferencias de Acceso a la Jubila...
Bucheli, Marisa - 2014
pensions, while women are over-represented in the assistential and survivor pension programs. This difference is linked to the …
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New Evidence on the Social Security Incentives as Drivers of Retirement Behavior
Jousten, Alain - 2014
The paper uses a rich administrative dataset on Belgian older workers to provide new evidence on the impact of social security systems on retirement behavior. In addition to measures of financial incentives induced by the social security systems, we construct an eligibility status indicator....
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Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions
Bairoliya, Neha; McKiernan, Kathleen - 2021
Why do individuals retire and claim their Social Security benefits at the age they do? Understanding the key drivers of these decisions has been an important topic of research as it can help guide policy discussions on the impact of potential reforms to the Social Security program. We revisit...
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The Impact of Changes in Couples’ Earnings on Married Women’s Social Security Benefits
Butrica, Barbara A. - 2015
Women's labor force participation and earnings dramatically increased after World War II. Those changes have important implications for women's Social Security benefits. This article uses the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the Near Term (version 6) to examine Social Security...
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Insurance Through Marriage : Case of Parental Long-Term Care Shocks and Social Security Claiming
Bairoliya, Neha; Miller, Ray - 2021
Married individuals may be better placed to mitigate various lifecycle shocks than singles. We find evidence of valuable insurance through a spouse by looking at parental long-term care provision at older ages. Utilizing longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we empirically show...
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Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security Reforms
Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur - 2021
The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...
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