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"Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement 0 0 0 190 0 2 12 4,163
American Inequality and Its Consequences 0 0 0 53 0 1 6 181
Can Educational Attainment Explain the Rise in Labor Force Participation at Older Ages? 0 0 0 58 1 2 5 91
Can Supply-Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 1 419 2 16 39 3,502
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 0 2 5 35
Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits 0 1 1 2 0 3 4 26
Do Retired Americans Annuitize Too Little? Trends in the Share of Annuitized Income 0 0 0 13 0 4 7 39
Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social Security-Taxable Wages 0 0 0 6 1 2 3 28
Evaluating Fundamental Pension Reform in Japan and the United States 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 67
Failure to Launch: Cross-National Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence 0 1 1 8 0 5 13 65
Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective 0 0 0 14 0 3 8 49
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly 0 0 0 21 0 1 7 113
How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts? 0 0 1 117 0 3 9 444
How Would Investing in Equities Have Affected the Social Security Trust Fund? 0 0 1 15 0 4 7 46
Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of American Well-Being 0 0 0 45 2 6 7 121
Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries 0 0 0 40 1 2 6 74
Income Distribution, Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context 1 1 1 5 4 5 9 26
International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns 0 0 0 98 0 2 10 308
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 443 0 3 12 1,673
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 27 0 5 13 141
Labor Force Dynamics in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: Implications for Older Workers 0 0 0 42 0 2 10 44
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 200 0 3 12 429
Post-War Trends in Labor Income in the Social Security Earnings Records 0 0 0 21 0 3 7 26
Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 0 48 0 1 5 119
Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work Among Older Americans 0 0 0 687 0 4 9 3,054
Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence 0 0 0 22 0 4 8 160
Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S. Financial History 0 0 1 301 4 10 18 966
Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status 0 0 0 18 0 1 8 39
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment 0 0 0 7 0 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 3 0 0 6 33
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 0 1 8 14 28
The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants 0 0 1 20 1 1 20 85
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment 0 0 0 0 2 4 13 528
The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey 1 2 5 634 2 5 25 1,550
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 0 2 101 2 5 16 290
The Job Prospects of U.S. Welfare Recipients: Lousier Pay but Bigger Earnings Supplements 0 0 0 61 1 5 11 605
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 0 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 0 6 3 6 11 56
What are the Costs and Benefits of Social Security Investing in Equities? 0 0 1 25 2 13 34 84
Total Working Papers 2 5 16 3,999 30 152 445 20,111


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Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy 0 0 0 17 1 3 7 86
Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment 0 0 0 38 0 4 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 0 3 7
Can Improved Options for Private Saving Offer a Plausible Substitute for Public Pensions?* 0 0 1 5 0 0 5 13
Can Supply-Side policies Reduce unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 0 2 14 31 344
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 1 3 6 34
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 7 45
Demographic change, rising earnings inequality, and the distribution of personal well-being, 1959–1989 0 0 0 48 0 4 8 126
Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion 0 0 1 10 0 3 6 106
Does a trend toward early retirement create problems for the economy? 0 0 0 16 0 3 9 468
Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving 1 1 2 300 2 8 17 698
Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution 0 0 0 217 1 3 13 628
First Discussant Comment on “Potential Effects of the Great Recession on the U.S. Labor Market” 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 6
Fiscal Policy and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Social Security Forecasts 0 0 0 32 0 4 7 179
Fixing Social Security: Major Reform or Minor Repairs? 0 0 0 7 0 2 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 0 1 5 24
Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded US Growth? 0 0 0 38 0 4 13 210
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 61 0 4 8 185
Improving the Fortunes of America’s Working Class 0 0 0 4 1 3 11 20
Inappropriate Comparisons as a Basis for Policy: Two Recent Examples from the Social Experiments* 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 23
Inferences Concerning Labor Supply Behavior Based on Limited-Duration Experiments 0 0 1 16 0 5 10 94
Innovations in Labour Market Policies: The Australian Way Comments on an OECD Report 0 0 0 7 0 0 5 41
International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality 0 0 0 635 1 2 11 1,696
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 0 4 8 118
Measuring the Impact of Nit Experiments on Work Effort 0 0 0 24 0 5 11 183
Minimum wages in the US Popular with the public and there's no evidence they cost jobs 0 0 0 1 2 3 7 25
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 1 3 13 71
Public Pension Reform in the U.S. Presidential Campaign 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 17
Relative Unemployment in Canada and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 46 1 1 8 257
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 0 1 1 43
Social Security reform in a global context 0 0 0 78 1 2 6 311
Social Security's Long-Term Budget Outlook 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 6
Social Security, Earnings Tests, and Age at Retirement 0 0 0 21 0 1 6 61
Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement 1 1 2 206 3 3 10 530
Taxes and Transfers: How Much Economic Loss? 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 15
The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research 0 0 1 893 1 1 8 1,906
The Contribution of Employment and Hours Changes to Family Income Inequality 0 0 0 32 1 5 8 169
The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys 0 0 0 136 0 4 13 427
The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America 0 0 1 101 0 0 6 372
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiments 1 3 14 633 2 15 35 1,269
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 0 1 3 24
The progress and distribution of U.S. living standards, 1959-1995 0 0 0 20 0 5 11 127
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence 0 1 11 754 3 12 53 2,348
Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993 0 0 0 38 0 2 8 175
Trends in the Well-Being of the Aged and Their Prospects through 2030 0 0 1 6 1 2 10 47
Welfare reform and New York City's low-income population - commentary 0 0 0 41 0 2 5 377
What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries 0 0 0 64 0 2 8 221
Why Is Insured Unemployment So Low? 0 0 0 18 1 2 8 130
Why Wages Aren’t Growing 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 11
`Double dipping': the combined effects of social security and civil service pensions on employee retirement 0 0 0 44 1 2 6 733
Total Journal Articles 3 7 39 4,961 30 155 493 16,309


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Asset accumulation and retirement income under individual retirement accounts: evidence from five countries 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 31
Comment on "The Effect of Population Aging on the Aggregate Labor Market" 0 0 0 7 1 2 9 48
Distributional impact of social security reform 0 0 0 8 0 4 10 33
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 84
Wrap-up Discussion 0 0 0 16 0 1 4 238
Total Chapters 0 0 0 37 1 9 37 434


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