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Enhancing Social Security Benefits for Low Earners

The Effects of Reducing Eligibility Requirements for Social Security Retirement Benefits

By Andrew G. Biggs | National Academy of Social Insurance
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Social Security Insurance eligibility requirements make it more difficult for beneficiaries to work or save. [Read more]

The Optimal Design of Social Security Benefits

By Kent Smetters , Shinichi Nishiyama | University of Michigan Retirement Research Center
Monday, September 15, 2008

The ex-ante best U.S. Social Security replacement rate structure is fairly "flat." [Read more]

Policies to Improve the Resiliency of Long-Term Social Security Financing

By Andrew G. Biggs | AEI Online
Wednesday, July 2, 2008

This paper examines policies to index Social Security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors. [Read more]

The Decline of Job Loss and Why It Matters

By Steven J. Davis | ASSA 2008 Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 3, 2008

There are many dimensions of economic insecurity, but the risk of job loss is usually seen as one of the major economic risks facing individuals. That particular risk has declined substantially. [Read more]

The Welfare Effects of Pay-as-You-Go Retirement Programs

The Role of Tax and Benefit Timing

By Alan D. Viard | AEI Online
Friday, September 22, 2006

Working paper on thepolicy implicationsof pay-as-you-go retirement plansin regard totax and benefit timing. [Read more]

Attitudes about Social Security Reform

By Karlyn Bowman | AEI Studies in Public Opinion
Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Only a small number of people are "very confident" about the future of the Social Security system. [Read more]

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