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The Changing Economic Circumstances of the Elderly : Income, Wealth, and Social Security
Smith, James P. - 2011
How is the economic status of the elderly changing and what are their prospects for the future? My portrait tells us how well off they are on average, but also about the vast disparities that exist among them. This description includes an often neglected measure of their economic well-being -...
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Challenges of Formal Social Security Systems in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011
The present paper discusses issues of challenges of social security systems in Sudan. Following parameters advanced by ILO and UNCOSOC, those systems are analyzed. The conclusions focus on their applicability that faces axial difficulties mainly presented in the state of institutional...
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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute
Forteza, Alvaro - 2015
Social security programs generally seek to provide insurance and to reduce poverty and inequality. Providing insurance requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality, programs must redistribute income, but...
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Old-age financial protection in Malaysia : challenges and options
Holzmann, Robert - 2015
's resources used as its major reserve fund. Whatever approach is considered, the reform discourse would benefit from changes in …
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Social security, labor supply and health of older workers: quasi-experimental evidence from a large reform
Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Shurtz, Ity; Weisburd, Sarit - 2020
consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …-margin labor supply elasticities w.r.t. the average net-of-tax rate of about 0.43 for men over 65. Using the reform to instrument … after age 75 and is driven by workers holding blue-collar jobs. Finally, we evaluate the effect of the reform on earnings …
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Pension reform in Belarus in the shadow of social Europe : vulnerability issues of people aged 50+ and points for improvement
Naūrodski, Sierž - 2016
The policy brief presents a review of potential effects of parametric pension reform in Belarus starting in 2017 for … mitigating vulnerability of the group 50+ during the pension reform. …
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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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How did Feldstein (1985) undervalue the optimal level of social security benefits?
Simonovits, András - 2017
In his seminal model (Feldstein, 1985), the government operates a social security system to counter the representative worker's myopia. (i) For a complete myope, he determined a sizable optimal tax rate (and the corresponding benefit level). (ii) For a partially shortsighted worker, he...
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Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers
Kruse, Herman; Myhre, Andreas - 2022
This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavior among elderly displaced workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian matched employer-employee data containing information on bankruptcy dates and...
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[Reform der sozialen Sicherung
Breyer, Friedrich; Franz, Wolfgang; Homburg, Stefan; … - 2004
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