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Social insurance and the marriage market
Persson, Petra - 2015
Social insurance is often linked to marriage. I model how such linkage affects the marriage market, and exploit Sweden's elimination of survivors insurance to demonstrate economically important responses along several behavioral margins in this market. Entry into marriage reflects a demand for...
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Social security and divorce decisions
Dillender, Marcus - 2014
People who have divorced are entitled to Social Security spousal benefits if their marriages lasted at least ten years. This paper uses 1985–1995 Vital Statistics data and the 2008–2011 American Community Surveys to analyze how this rule affects divorce decisions. I find evidence that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336599
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Is our fiscal system discouraging marriage? : a new look at the marriage tax
Ilin, Elias; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2022
We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax: the reduction in future spending from getting married. Our measure is a comprehensive, actuarial (expected) present value. It incorporates all major and most minor US tax and benefit programs, weighing the present value of additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269643
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Social Security and Divorce Decisions
Dillender, Marcus - 2015
People who have divorced are entitled to Social Security spousal benefits if their marriages lasted at least ten years. This paper uses 1985-1995 Vital Statistics data and the 2008-2011 American Community Surveys to analyze how this rule affects divorce decisions. I find evidence that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034255
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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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Marriage in old age : what can we learn about policy impacts on same-sex couples?
Friedberg, Leora; Isaac, Elliott - 2023
Recipiency of tax or transfer benefits in the United States often depends on marital status, creating complicated incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to marry, now face the same marriage incentives that...
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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2005
This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant?s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our results support the view that selectivity bias appears in Canadian immigrant citizenship decisions...
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The dynamics of immigrant welfare and labor market behavior
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001
employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403758
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Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002
Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter Sozialstaat zusätzliche Wanderungsanreize generieren kann, die eine nennenswerte Zuwanderung in das Sozialversicherungssystem zur Folge hat. Darüber hinaus werden verschiedene Politikoptionen zur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411592
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Immigration and the Canadian Welfare State 2011
Grubel, Herbert - 2011
This publication provides an estimate of the fiscal burden created by recent immigration into Canada and proposes … growing fiscal burden from immigration, the study proposes that temporary work visas be granted to applicants who have a valid … offer for employment from employers, in occupations and at pay levels specified by the federal government and determined in …
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