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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494349
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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590057
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The commitment value of prefunded pensions
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015
This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot … commit. We focus on sustainable plans, where optimal nonlinear pensions are not reneged on by sequential governments …. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies lower contributions than does the second best policy, which reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405644
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Population aging, social security and fiscal limits
Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael R. - 2018
We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864671
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What Ownership Society: Debating Housing and Social Security Reform in the United States
Béland, Daniel - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006
over President Bush's "ownership society" in the fields of housing and pensions, this article underlines the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635200
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214821
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014513264
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A new approach to raising social security's earliest eligibility age
Haverstick, Kelly; Sapozhnikov, Margarita; Triest, Robert K. - 2008
While Social Securityfs Normal Retirement Age (NRA) is increasing to 67, the Earliest Eligibility Age (EEA) remains at 62. Similar plans to increase the EEA raise concerns that they would create excessive hardship on workers who are worn]out or in bad health. One simple rule to increase the EEA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810056
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Is social security part of the social safety net?
Brown, Jeffrey R.; Coronado, Julia Lynn; Fullerton, Don - 2009
Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, this paper focuses more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor. This question is important because a Social Security program that reduces overall inequality by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824985
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Taxes and pensions
Diamond, Peter A. - 2009
mandatory pensions. Conversely, optimizing models of pension design typically do not include annual taxation of labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850157