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"Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement 0 0 0 190 2 5 13 4,163
American Inequality and Its Consequences 0 0 0 53 1 1 6 181
Can Educational Attainment Explain the Rise in Labor Force Participation at Older Ages? 0 0 0 58 1 2 4 90
Can Supply-Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 1 419 6 21 40 3,500
Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population 0 0 0 26 0 0 11 148
Changing Mortality Rates and Income Inequality among the U.S. Elderly 0 0 0 34 2 2 5 35
Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 26
Do Retired Americans Annuitize Too Little? Trends in the Share of Annuitized Income 0 0 0 13 3 4 7 39
Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social Security-Taxable Wages 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 27
Evaluating Fundamental Pension Reform in Japan and the United States 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 66
Failure to Launch: Cross-National Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence 1 1 1 8 5 7 14 65
Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective 0 0 0 14 3 3 8 49
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly 0 0 0 21 1 4 7 113
How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts? 0 0 1 117 3 3 9 444
How Would Investing in Equities Have Affected the Social Security Trust Fund? 0 0 1 15 3 5 7 46
Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of American Well-Being 0 0 0 45 3 4 5 119
Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries 0 0 0 40 1 1 5 73
Income Distribution, Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context 0 0 0 4 1 2 6 22
International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns 0 0 0 98 2 3 10 308
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 443 2 5 12 1,673
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 27 5 6 13 141
Labor Force Dynamics in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: Implications for Older Workers 0 0 0 42 2 3 10 44
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 200 3 4 12 429
Post-War Trends in Labor Income in the Social Security Earnings Records 0 0 0 21 3 4 7 26
Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 0 48 1 1 5 119
Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work Among Older Americans 0 0 0 687 1 4 9 3,054
Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence 0 0 0 22 3 5 8 160
Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S. Financial History 0 0 1 301 2 8 14 962
Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status 0 0 0 18 1 3 8 39
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment 0 0 0 7 1 1 7 39
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 0 6 7 13 27
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 3 0 1 6 33
The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants 0 1 1 20 0 1 19 84
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment 0 0 0 0 2 2 12 526
The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey 1 1 5 633 2 5 25 1,548
The Impact of Later Retirement on Government Budgets 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 51
The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity 0 2 2 101 1 8 14 288
The Job Prospects of U.S. Welfare Recipients: Lousier Pay but Bigger Earnings Supplements 0 0 0 61 2 5 10 604
The Rationale for Fundamental Pension Reform in Germany and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 73 0 0 5 401
The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries 0 0 0 65 2 2 3 108
The Shrinking Tax Preference for Pension Savings: An Analysis of Income Tax Changes, 1985-2007 0 0 0 19 0 1 5 76
United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context 0 0 1 6 3 3 9 53
What are the Costs and Benefits of Social Security Investing in Equities? 0 0 1 25 11 15 32 82
Total Working Papers 3 6 16 3,997 94 166 425 20,081


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Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy 0 0 0 17 2 2 7 85
Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment 0 0 0 38 4 5 8 434
Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Can We Afford to Grow Older? A Perspective on the Economics of Aging 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 7
Can Improved Options for Private Saving Offer a Plausible Substitute for Public Pensions?* 0 0 1 5 0 1 5 13
Can Supply-Side policies Reduce unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 0 5 15 30 342
Can Supply‐Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 37 0 0 3 179
Capital in the Twenty‐First Century, by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2014, 685 pp., $39.95, hardcover 0 0 0 7 2 2 5 33
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, by Charles Murray, New York: Crown Forum/Random House, 2012, 407 pp., $27.00 hardcover 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 45
Demographic change, rising earnings inequality, and the distribution of personal well-being, 1959–1989 0 0 0 48 4 4 8 126
Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion 0 0 1 10 2 3 6 106
Does a trend toward early retirement create problems for the economy? 0 0 0 16 2 3 9 468
Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving 0 0 1 299 5 7 15 696
Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution 0 0 0 217 1 5 12 627
First Discussant Comment on “Potential Effects of the Great Recession on the U.S. Labor Market” 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 6
Fiscal Policy and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Social Security Forecasts 0 0 0 32 4 4 8 179
Fixing Social Security: Major Reform or Minor Repairs? 0 0 0 7 2 3 8 22
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volumes 1A and 1B By John Piggott and Alan Woodland (eds.), North-Holland, 2016 ISBN 978-0-444-53842-0 (Vol. 1A) and 978-0-444-53840-6 (Vol. 1B), 1146 pages 0 0 1 8 1 1 5 24
Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded US Growth? 0 0 0 38 1 4 13 210
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 61 4 4 8 185
Improving the Fortunes of America’s Working Class 0 0 0 4 2 4 10 19
Inappropriate Comparisons as a Basis for Policy: Two Recent Examples from the Social Experiments* 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 22
Inferences Concerning Labor Supply Behavior Based on Limited-Duration Experiments 0 0 1 16 5 6 10 94
Innovations in Labour Market Policies: The Australian Way Comments on an OECD Report 0 0 0 7 0 1 5 41
International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality 0 0 0 635 1 1 10 1,695
Learning More from Social Experiments: Evolving Analytic Approaches, edited by Howard S. Bloom, New York: Russell Sage, 2005, 246 pp., $35 hardcover, $19.95 paperback 0 0 0 31 0 0 3 95
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 27 4 4 8 118
Measuring the Impact of Nit Experiments on Work Effort 0 0 0 24 3 5 11 183
Minimum wages in the US Popular with the public and there's no evidence they cost jobs 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 23
North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality by Adrian Wood 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 7
Pension Reform and Saving 0 0 2 17 2 2 12 70
Public Pension Reform in the U.S. Presidential Campaign 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 16
Relative Unemployment in Canada and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 46 0 0 9 256
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment. Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and David A. Wise, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-07648-5, 459 pages 0 0 0 9 1 1 1 43
Social Security reform in a global context 0 0 0 78 1 2 5 310
Social Security's Long-Term Budget Outlook 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 6
Social Security, Earnings Tests, and Age at Retirement 0 0 0 21 1 1 6 61
Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 1 205 0 0 7 527
Taxes and Transfers: How Much Economic Loss? 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 14
The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research 0 0 1 893 0 0 7 1,905
The Contribution of Employment and Hours Changes to Family Income Inequality 0 0 0 32 4 4 8 168
The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys 0 0 0 136 2 6 13 427
The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America 0 0 1 101 0 2 6 372
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiments 1 2 17 632 9 13 38 1,267
The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work 0 1 1 205 0 1 8 566
The economic future of American families: Income and wealth trends, by Frank Levy and Richard C. Michel. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1991, 148 pp. Price: $33.00 cloth, $6.00 paper 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 24
The progress and distribution of U.S. living standards, 1959-1995 0 0 0 20 5 6 11 127
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence 1 2 13 754 6 12 54 2,345
Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993 0 0 0 38 1 3 8 175
Trends in the Well-Being of the Aged and Their Prospects through 2030 0 0 1 6 1 1 9 46
Welfare reform and New York City's low-income population - commentary 0 0 0 41 2 2 6 377
What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries 0 0 0 64 1 2 8 221
Why Is Insured Unemployment So Low? 0 0 0 18 1 2 7 129
Why Wages Aren’t Growing 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 11
`Double dipping': the combined effects of social security and civil service pensions on employee retirement 0 0 0 44 1 2 6 732
Total Journal Articles 2 5 42 4,958 94 158 481 16,279


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Asset accumulation and retirement income under individual retirement accounts: evidence from five countries 0 0 0 6 1 2 7 31
Comment on "The Effect of Population Aging on the Aggregate Labor Market" 0 0 0 7 1 1 8 47
Distributional impact of social security reform 0 0 0 8 3 6 10 33
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 84
Wrap-up Discussion 0 0 0 16 1 1 4 238
Total Chapters 0 0 0 37 7 12 36 433


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