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Social security is NOT a substitute for annuity markets

Caliendo, Frank; Guo, Nick L.; Hosseini, Roozbeh - In: Review of economic dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 739-755

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Social Security Reform Opinions : A Response to Risky Markets

Maestas, Cherie D - 2010

that risk-averse individuals discount positive economic expectations when forming their opinion regarding privatization …, and that risk acceptant individuals weigh positive expectations more heavily. Thus, the endearing effect of economic … confidence on privatization is greater as risk tolerance increases. We use national survey data from the 2008 Cooperative …

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Welfare implications of uncertain social security reform

Nelson, Jaeger - In: Public finance review : PFR 48 (2020) 4, pp. 425-466

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Sustainable social security : four options

Kitao, Sagiri - 2011

This paper presents four policy options to make Social Security sustainable under the coming demographic shift: 1) increase payroll taxes by 6 percentage points, 2) reduce the replacement rates of the benefit formula by one-third, 3) raise the normal retirement age from sixty-six to...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security and Tax Reform in the United States

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2005

We use the IMF''s Global Fiscal Model to evaluate recent proposals to reform social security and the tax system in the United States. Introducing personal retirement accounts is unlikely to yield significant macroeconomic benefits unless it spurs additional fiscal consolidation to prevent a...

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Means testing and Social Security in the United States

Bagchi, Shantanu - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 68-91

This paper uses a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a higher...

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