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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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Jointly determined saving and fertility behaviour : theory, and estimates for Germany, Italy, UK and USA

Cigno, Alessandro - In: European economic review : EER 40 (1996) 8, pp. 1561-1589

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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

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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Growth and Savings in USA and Japan

Laski, Kazimierz; Römisch, Roman - 2001

private savings ratio. In a generalized model private investment (IP) has to be supplemented by the trade balance (E) and the … generalized case, on the demand effect of NPCE growth and on changes in the private savings ratio. In the present paper the term …, the private savings ratio does depend on GDP, especially on the distribution of disposable GDP between undistributed …

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