Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) on Social Security benefits received by households. The provisions reduce … pension and were not subject to Social Security payroll taxes (“noncovered” employment). We find that about 3.5 percent of … the WEP, the Social Security benefit reduction is capped at one-half of the amount of the pension from noncovered …

aging population. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system … model to evaluate two schemes to raise the existing universal basic pension income to the poverty line, namely, uniform … benefits and pension-tested benefits. We find that pension-testing effectively improves the targeting efficiency, and …

the population. Reinvention of human capital policies is required to avoid increasing welfare state dependency among the … is both distortionary and inequitable. Early retirement and pension schemes should be made actuarially fairer as they …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …, our findings indicate that the impact of welfare rules crucially hinges on the biological relationship of the male partner …

to experience elsewhere. This paper examines this question for the case of Canadian social assistance (welfare) policies … growth has varied substantially across regions. The second is that welfare policies vary across provinces, and the ability of … the provinces to employ different approaches to welfare programs has increased since the mid-1990s. We thus examine …

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …