?> 2011 – Publication Years – MRDRC

The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

Studies using data from the early 1990s suggested that while the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeded in redistributing benefits from individuals with high earnings to individuals with low earnings, it was much less successful in redistributing benefits from households…

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Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

  • June 14, 2018
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We present the first estimates of the causal effects of SSDI receipt on labor supply that are generalizable to the entire population of program entrants in the present day system. We take advantage of a unique workload management database to…

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The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution under the Social Security Benefit Formula

  • June 14, 2018
  • Uncategorized

Studies conducted in the early 1990s analyzed whether the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeds in redistributing benefits from high to low earners. These studies suggested that while the benefit formula fostered significant redistribution from individuals with high earnings to…

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Effects of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the U.S. Social Security System

  • June 14, 2018
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Immigration is having an increasingly important effect on the social insurance system in the United States. On the one hand, eligible legal immigrants have the right to eventually receive pension benefits, but also rely on other aspects of the social…

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Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply

The direct financial impact of the financial crisis has been to deal a heavy blow to investment-based pensions; many workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion in turn produced an economic crisis for the…

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The Labor Supply Effects of Disability Insurance: Evidence from Automatic Conversion Using Administrative Data

We analyze a natural experiment generated by the interaction of the Social Security DI and OA programs at Full Retirement Age, when DI beneficiaries are automatically converted from the DI program to the OA retired worker program.  At conversion benefit…

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