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"Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement 0 0 0 190 1 1 6 4,150
American Inequality and Its Consequences 0 0 0 53 0 1 4 174
Can Educational Attainment Explain the Rise in Labor Force Participation at Older Ages? 0 1 1 58 0 1 3 86
Can Supply-Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 1 3 418 4 6 31 3,457
Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 137
Changing Mortality Rates and Income Inequality among the U.S. Elderly 0 0 0 34 0 0 1 29
Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 22
Do Retired Americans Annuitize Too Little? Trends in the Share of Annuitized Income 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 32
Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social Security-Taxable Wages 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 25
Evaluating Fundamental Pension Reform in Japan and the United States 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 64
Failure to Launch: Cross-National Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence 0 0 0 7 0 0 2 49
Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective 0 0 0 14 1 1 2 41
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly 0 0 0 21 1 1 2 106
How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts? 0 0 0 116 1 2 3 435
How Would Investing in Equities Have Affected the Social Security Trust Fund? 0 0 0 14 3 4 5 38
Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of American Well-Being 0 0 0 45 1 1 1 114
Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 68
Income Distribution, Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 15
International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns 0 0 0 98 0 0 2 298
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 1 443 0 0 3 1,660
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 27 1 2 3 127
Labor Force Dynamics in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: Implications for Older Workers 0 0 0 42 0 0 4 34
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 200 0 0 2 417
Post-War Trends in Labor Income in the Social Security Earnings Records 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 19
Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 0 48 0 0 1 112
Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work Among Older Americans 0 0 0 687 0 0 3 3,045
Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 152
Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S. Financial History 0 0 0 300 0 0 1 948
Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status 0 0 0 18 1 1 2 29
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 32
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 1 26
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14
The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants 0 0 1 19 1 2 5 65
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 513
The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey 0 0 2 628 2 4 18 1,522
The Impact of Later Retirement on Government Budgets 0 0 1 4 3 3 5 49
The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity 0 2 3 98 2 8 34 273
The Job Prospects of U.S. Welfare Recipients: Lousier Pay but Bigger Earnings Supplements 0 0 0 61 0 0 0 594
The Rationale for Fundamental Pension Reform in Germany and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 73 0 0 1 396
The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries 0 0 0 65 0 0 1 105
The Shrinking Tax Preference for Pension Savings: An Analysis of Income Tax Changes, 1985-2007 0 0 0 19 1 1 1 71
United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 41
What are the Costs and Benefits of Social Security Investing in Equities? 0 0 0 24 1 1 3 50
Total Working Papers 0 4 12 3,980 26 45 161 19,634


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Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 77
Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment 0 2 5 38 0 3 9 426
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 1 2 2 4
Can Improved Options for Private Saving Offer a Plausible Substitute for Public Pensions?* 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 6
Can Supply-Side policies Reduce unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 312
Can Supply‐Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 37 0 2 3 176
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 0 0 0 28
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 0 37
Demographic change, rising earnings inequality, and the distribution of personal well-being, 1959–1989 0 0 0 48 1 2 5 118
Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 100
Does a trend toward early retirement create problems for the economy? 0 1 1 16 0 1 2 459
Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving 0 0 0 298 1 2 3 680
Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution 0 1 5 217 0 1 8 615
First Discussant Comment on “Potential Effects of the Great Recession on the U.S. Labor Market” 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
Fiscal Policy and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Social Security Forecasts 0 0 0 32 0 0 1 171
Fixing Social Security: Major Reform or Minor Repairs? 0 0 2 7 0 0 3 14
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 7 0 1 2 19
Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded US Growth? 0 0 1 38 1 1 3 196
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 3 61 1 1 4 177
Improving the Fortunes of America’s Working Class 0 0 2 4 0 1 4 9
Inappropriate Comparisons as a Basis for Policy: Two Recent Examples from the Social Experiments* 0 0 1 2 0 1 5 19
Inferences Concerning Labor Supply Behavior Based on Limited-Duration Experiments 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 84
Innovations in Labour Market Policies: The Australian Way Comments on an OECD Report 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 36
International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality 0 0 5 635 0 0 7 1,685
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 0 92
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 27 0 1 1 110
Measuring the Impact of Nit Experiments on Work Effort 0 0 0 24 0 1 2 172
Minimum wages in the US Popular with the public and there's no evidence they cost jobs 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18
North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality by Adrian Wood 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 7
Pension Reform and Saving 0 1 1 15 0 2 5 57
Public Pension Reform in the U.S. Presidential Campaign 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13
Relative Unemployment in Canada and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 246
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 42
Social Security reform in a global context 0 0 0 77 0 0 1 303
Social Security's Long-Term Budget Outlook 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Social Security, Earnings Tests, and Age at Retirement 0 0 0 21 0 0 1 55
Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 0 204 0 0 3 520
Taxes and Transfers: How Much Economic Loss? 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7
The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research 0 0 2 892 0 1 8 1,897
The Contribution of Employment and Hours Changes to Family Income Inequality 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 160
The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys 0 0 1 136 0 0 4 414
The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America 0 0 0 100 1 1 1 366
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiments 2 3 14 613 2 6 28 1,225
The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work 0 0 2 204 0 0 6 557
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 0 0 21
The progress and distribution of U.S. living standards, 1959-1995 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 116
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence 1 5 32 737 9 21 89 2,283
Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993 0 0 1 38 1 1 3 167
Trends in the Well-Being of the Aged and Their Prospects through 2030 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 37
Welfare reform and New York City's low-income population - commentary 0 0 1 41 0 0 1 371
What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries 0 0 1 64 0 0 1 213
Why Is Insured Unemployment So Low? 0 0 0 18 0 1 2 122
Why Wages Aren’t Growing 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 7
`Double dipping': the combined effects of social security and civil service pensions on employee retirement 0 0 0 44 0 0 4 726
Total Journal Articles 3 13 86 4,908 22 60 240 15,775


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Asset accumulation and retirement income under individual retirement accounts: evidence from five countries 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 24
Comment on "The Effect of Population Aging on the Aggregate Labor Market" 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 39
Distributional impact of social security reform 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 23
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 77
Wrap-up Discussion 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 234
Total Chapters 0 0 0 37 3 4 8 397


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