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Mending but not ending Social Security: the individual accounts plan

Review , Issue Mar , Pages 7-10

Working Paper
Incorporating insurance rate estimates and differential mortality into net marginal Social Security tax rate calculations

This paper extends the literature on net marginal tax rates created by the Social Security program by including variations in both the probability of being eligible to receive benefits and income-related life expectancy. The previous literature has found that women incur a lower net marginal tax rate because they have longer life expectancies. The results presented in this paper indicate that including variations in eligibility for benefits partially reverses this result by increasing net marginal Social Security tax rates for older women. In addition, the existing literature has shown that ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2002-29

Working Paper
Voting on social security: evidence from OECD countries

An examination of the subset of public choice models for Social Security that have empirical implications. The data, collected from OECD countries for the years 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990, show that higher median voter age, greater income heterogeneity, similarity in family size, and variables that make a public pension program profitable are all associated with a larger program.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9511

Journal Article
The future of Social Security Disability Insurance

Social Security Disability Insurance is projected to be insolvent before the end of the decade. How best to restore the program to long-term financial health depends on what has been driving its rapid growth. Demographic shifts and other predictable factors explain part of the increase. But a sizable share reflects increasing participation in the program across population groups. Curbing this growth is important for putting the program back on a sustainable fiscal path.
FRBSF Economic Letter

Journal Article
The real population problem: too few working, too many retired

It's not the total number of people that should be causing worry, but the number of retired people relative to those still working. Across the world, the ranks of retirees are swelling and the ranks of those working - and paying taxes to support retirees - are not keeping up.
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr , Pages 4-9

Journal Article
Live long and prosper: challenges ahead for an aging population

Over the next thirty years, the percentage of people who are 65 and over will grow rapidly while the percentage of people in their working years will decline. This shift in the age distribution of the population will put enormous pressure on social security systems in the United States, Germany, and Japan as the number of workers whose payroll taxes fund each retiree drops sharply.
Current Issues in Economics and Finance , Volume 8 , Issue Feb

Journal Article
Indexation of social security benefits - a reform in need of reform

Review , Volume 63 , Issue Jun , Pages 3-10

Journal Article
Social Security private accounts: a risky proposition?

In the ongoing debate over Social Security, private accounts have been recommended as one part of the resolution of the funding difficulties the system faces in coming years. This article discusses what private accounts can and cannot do for individuals who choose to use them and for future Social Security deficits. ; Under current proposals, private accounts would give account holders personal ownership rights and could be willed to heirs at death. Most proposals would limit the range of assets that can be held but would permit account owners to determine their investments based on personal ...
Economic Review , Volume 90 , Issue Q 3 , Pages 13

Discussion Paper
A new approach to raising Social Security’s earliest eligibility age

While Social Security?s 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 is to tie an increase to the number of quarters of covered earnings. Such a provision would allow those with long work lives?presumably the less educated and lower paid?to quit earlier. We provide evidence that this simple rule would not satisfy the goal of preventing undue hardship on certain workers. ...
Public Policy Discussion Paper , Paper 08-4

Speech
Social Security reform and demographic reality

Presentation at Delta State University, Cleveland, Miss., Oct. 19, 2004
Speech , Paper 12

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