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The Importance of State Anti-Discrimination Laws on Employer Accommodation and the Movement of their Employees onto Social Security Disability Insurance
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2011-09)
The rate of application for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, as well as the number of beneficiaries has been increasing for the past several decades, threatening the solvency of the SSDI program. One ...
Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2011-09)
The direct financial impact of the financial crisis has been to deal a heavy blow to investment-based pensions; many workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion in turn ...
Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2011-12)
Shocks and Transitions from Career Jobs to Bridge Jobs and Retirement: A New Approach
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2018-02)
This research provides new empirical evidence on late-life labor market activities of American households from a new survey implemented under the Vanguard Research Initiative. The survey features following innovations: It ...
Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2013-06)
A large share of new Social Security Disability (SSD) beneficiaries -- disabled workers and disabled adult children (DAC) -- are under age 40. Better information on the backgrounds, impairments, personal characteristics, ...
Technical Review Panel for the Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS)
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2013-09-30)
In April of 2013, the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania convened a Technical Review Panel, comprising ten experts whose task it was to review the Pension Benefit Guaranty ...
Relative Sizes of Age Cohorts and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2018-09)
We study the effects of the size of older cohorts on labor force participation (LFP) and wages of older workers. In the standard relative supply framework usually applied to relative cohort size, we would expect larger ...
Social Security Coverage around the World: The Case of China and Mexico
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2018-09)
We describe the current state and recent trends in the landscape of social security programs in China, Mexico, and India. A common thread across these countries is the introduction and recent expansion of old-age pension ...
Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2013-10-01)
Economists’ standard model assumes that improvements in total factor productivity (TFP) raise the marginal product of labor for all workers evenly. This paper uses an earnings dynamics regression model to study whether, ...
Earnings Growth versus Measures of Income and Education for Predicting Mortality
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2011-09)
This paper begins an exploration to determine whether earnings growth, as a measure of the propensity to invest in human capital, is a valuable variable for predicting mortality. To insure its robustness and
general ...