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Journal Article

More Americans Will Delay Retirement – Implications for Social Security and Medicare

An unprecedented upturn in the number of older Americans who delay retirement is likely to continue and even accelerate over the next two decades, a trend that should help ease the financial challenges facing both Social Security and Medicare.

Dec 31, 2009
Journal Article

Convergence Without Diffusion? A Comparative Analysis of the Choice of Performance Indicators in Tax Administration and Social Security

This article aims to contribute to the debate around how organizations could learn from the experience of others in designing performance indicators and management systems.

Nov 30, 2008
Journal Article

The Effect of the Social Security Earnings Test on Male Labor Supply: New Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data

Analyzes the male labor supply effects of the Social Security earnings test using longitudinal administrative earnings data and commonly used survey data. Finds a consistent and substantial response to the earnings test, especially for younger men.

Dec 31, 2007
Journal Article

How Did the Elimination of the US Earnings Test Above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Labour Supply Expectations?

Looks at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age on the self-reported probabilities of working full-time after ages 65 and 62 of male workers in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study.

Dec 31, 2007
Dissertation

Developing a Safety Net for Ukraine

Explores issues of development of social safety nets in countries in transition and looks at whether reducing social security expenditures to stimulate economic growth policy is an effective way to combat poverty in such countries.

Aug 19, 2007
Journal Article

Simulation of Pension Reforms in The Netherlands

No abstract is available for this document.

Dec 31, 2006
Journal Article

International Benchmark of Fraud and Error in Social Security Systems

This report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO), presents the results of a benchmarking exercise investigating the issue of fraud and error in the social security systems of eight European and non-European countries.

Jul 19, 2006
Journal Article

Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Changes on the SSI Program

The authors examine the impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996.

Dec 31, 2000
Journal Article

Changes in Mental Health and Service Use After Termination of SSI Benefits

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for a substance abuse disability were terminated by federal legislation as of January 1, 1997.

Dec 31, 2000
Journal Article

Drug Use and Disability Payments in Los Angeles County After SSI Reform

This paper describes the economic, health, and other effects of SSI reform among Los Angeles County SSI recipients.

Dec 31, 1999
Journal Article

Termination of Social Security Benefits Among Los Angeles Recipients Disabled by Substance Abuse

Recipients of Social Security disability benefits with comorbid psychiatric problems lost benefits because they did not appeal or appeal was denied.

Dec 31, 1998
Report

Social Security: Equity, Adequacy, Reforms

Examines the U.S. Social Security System (SSS) against two key principles: individual equity and social adequacy.

Dec 31, 1995
Research Brief

Profiling Public Expenditures

Define four complementary schemes for classifying expenditures -- function, fund, jurisdiction, and economic type -- and integrate them to construct a profile of public expenditures over the past 41 years.

Dec 31, 1994
Report

Social Security Financing: Informing Decisions for Uncertain Futures

Provides an overview of the Social Security financial system in the past and present and an analysis of the types of legislative, economic, and demographic uncertainties that are inherent in the forecasting process.

Dec 31, 1987
Report

Social security, a retrospective look at decisions for complex futures

The Social Security system is now 48 years old and on the brink of bankruptcy. Yet, it is only within the last ten years that insolvency has become a pressing problem for the program. From an examination of Social Security's history, it appears that ...

Dec 31, 1982
Report

Demographic Certainties and Uncertainties in the Future of Social Security (Testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs)

This testimony describes demographic changes that will affect Social Security financing over the long term: the aging of the population (that is, the rise in the fraction of elderly people) from now into the next century; the shift of wives into paid...

Dec 31, 1980
Journal Article

The Manuscripts of Social Welfare

The author invites the attention of American archivists and social work leaders to the nature of social welfare from a record-keeping standpoint.

Dec 31, 1959
Content

Kathryn A. Edwards

Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison; M.S. in economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison; B.A. in economics, government, plan ii (humanities), University of Texas at Austin
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Philip Armour

Economist; Professor of Policy Analysis and Director of Research, Analysis, & Design, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economics, Cornell University; M.Sc. in econometrics, London School of Economics; M.A. in economics, Cornell University; B.A. in economics/literature/mathematics, Pomona College
Content

Michael D. Hurd

Director, RAND Center for the Study of Aging; Senior Principal Researcher
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; M.S. in statistics, University of California, Berkeley; B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Utah

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RAND Topic:
Social Security

Topic Synonyms:
Social Security Program;
SSA

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