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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 R. - 2020

discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …

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Partial Privatization of Social Security : Assessing its Effect on Women, Minorities, and Lower-Income Workers

Moore, Kathryn L. - 2006

This article explains why partial privatization of Social Security is likely to have an adverse impact on three specific subpopulations: women, minorities, and lower-income workers. It begins by explaining how partial privatization differs fundamentally from the current system. It then explains...

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The Financial Crisis and Varieties of Pension Privatization Reversals in Eastern Europe

Naczyk, Marek - 2015

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, those East European countries that had partly privatized their pension systems in the 1990s or early 2000s increasingly scaled back their mandatory private retirement accounts and restored the role of public provision. What explains this wave of reversals...

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Examining Social Security Benefits as a Retirement Resource for Near-Retirees, by Race and Ethnicity, Nativity, and Disability Status

Choudhury, Sharmila - 2009

near-retirees. The analysis therein examines the distribution of benefits among subgroups by (1) race and ethnicity, (2 …

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An Overview of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Context of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income

Smith-Kaprosy, Nolan - 2015

This article examines the economic security of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population by exploring AIAN receipt of Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). This analysis uses data from the 2005–2009 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample,...

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Social Security Retirement Benefits : A Timing Model for Working Families

Lipman, Francine J. - 2018

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Pay-as-they-get-in : Attitudes towards Migrants and Pension Systems

Boeri, Tito; Gamalerio, Matteo; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2023

We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining...

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Pay-as-they-get-in : attitudes towards migrants and pension systems

Boeri, Tito; Gamalerio, Matteo; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2023

We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining how,...

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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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Old, sick, alone, and poor : a welfare analysis of old-age social insurance programs

Braun, R. Anton; Kopecky, Karen A.; Koreshkova, Tatyana - 2013

Poor heath, large acute and long-term care medical expenses, and spousal death are significant drivers of impoverishment among retirees. We document these facts and build a rich, overlapping generations model that reproduces them. We use the model to assess the incentive and welfare effects of...

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