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Home production and Social Security reform
Dotsey, Michael; Li, Wenli; Yang, Fang (2012)
This paper incorporates home production into a dynamic general equilibrium model of overlapping generations with endogenous retirement to study Social Security reforms. As such, the model differentiates both consumption goods and labor effort according to their respective roles in home production and market activities. Using a calibrated model, we find that eliminating the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system has important implications for both labor supply and consumption decisions and that these decisions are influenced by the presence of a home production technology. Comparing our ...
Working Papers , Paper 12-5

Journal Article
Structural reform of the Social Security system: the time has come
Gokhale, Jagadeesh (1997-02)
An argument that any successful reform of the Social Security system must 1) result in more real investment, 2) restore individuals' incentives to work, and 3) reduce or eliminate the intergenerational redistribution that leads to low national saving.
Economic Commentary , Issue Feb

Journal Article
Social Security: are we getting our money's worth?
Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Lansing, Kevin J. (1996-01)
An examination of Social Security from an individual investment perspective, showing that continued delays in addressing the program's shortcomings will only increase the intergenerational inequities that now exist.
Economic Commentary , Issue Jan

Journal Article
Reforming Social Security in theory and practice: proceedings of a Symposium held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 11, 1997 ; edited by Patricia S. Pollard.
Pollard, Patricia S. (1998-03)
Review , Issue Mar

Journal Article
Smoking: taxing health and Social Security
Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda (2007-07-03)
Cigarette smoking is costly in terms of not only its effects on smokers' health but also the direct and indirect financial costs it imposes on smokers and their families. For instance, premature death caused by smoking may redistribute Social Security income in unexpected ways that affect behavior and reduce the economic well-being of smokers and their dependents. ; This article examines the effects of smoking-attributable mortality on the net marginal Social Security tax rate (NMSSTR)?the difference between the statutory payroll tax rate and the present value of future benefits to which a ...
Economic Review , Volume 92 , Issue Q 3 , Pages 27-41

Conference Paper
Social Security reform: links to saving, investment and growth
Triest, Robert K.; Sass, Steven A. (1997)
Conference Series ; [Proceedings]

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Left behind: SSI in the era of welfare reform
Daly, Mary C.; Burkhauser, Richard V. (2003)
SSI was established in 1972, born out of a compromise at the time between those wanting to provide a guaranteed income floor and those wishing to limit it to individuals not expected to work: the aged, blind, and disabled. SSI is now the largest federal means-tested program in the United States, serving a population dominated by low-income adults and children with disabilities. With other forms of federal support devolving to state programs (e.g., welfare), policymakers pressing to redefine social expectations about who should and should not work, and the Americans with Disabilities Act ...
Working Paper Series , Paper 2003-12

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Do households have enough wealth for retirement?
Love, David A.; Smith, Paul A.; McNair, Lucy C. (2007)
Dramatic structural changes in the U.S. pension system, along with the impending wave of retiring baby boomers, have given rise to a broad policy discussion of the adequacy of household retirement wealth. We construct a uniquely comprehensive measure of wealth for households aged 51 and older in 2004 that includes expected wealth from Social Security, defined benefit pensions, life insurance, annuities, welfare payments, and future labor earnings. Abstracting from the uncertainty surrounding asset returns, length of life and medical expenses, we assess the adequacy of wealth using two ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2007-17

Journal Article
Social security, saving, and wealth accumulation
Thornton, Daniel L. (2005-05)
National Economic Trends , Issue May

Journal Article
Pay-as-you-go Social Security and the aging of America: an economic analysis
Viard, Alan D. (2002)
Because it is a mature pay-as-you-go retirement system, Social Security provides current and future workers with below-market returns. These workers bear the burden of the unfunded liability arising from windfall gains to past retirees. Alan D. Viard uses these principles to examine the effects of three demographic developments: the low birthrate since the baby boom ended in 1965, the impending retirement of the baby boomers, and the downward trend in old-age mortality. The low birthrate reduces Social Securitys long-run rate of return as the unfunded liability is spread across fewer workers. ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review

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