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Why Did Disability Allowance Rates Rise in the Great Recession? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College When job opportunities decline due to a weak economy, application rates for Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) typically rise. At the same time...
Can Benefits and Work Incentives Counseling be a Path to Future Economic Self-Sufficiency for SSI/SSDI Beneficiaries? 12 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College In this paper, we estimate the effect of benefits and work incentives counseling services on labor market outcomes of Supplemental Security Income (SS...
New Brunswick’s New Shared Risk Pension Plan 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Employer defined benefit pension plans have long been an important component of the U.S. retirement system. Although these plans are disappearing in t...
The Funding of State and Local Pensions: 2012-2016 2 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College This 2012 update on the funded status of state/local pensions will be one of the last two based on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (GASB...
The Impact of Interest Rates on the National Retirement Risk Index 19 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) measures the share of working-age households who are “at risk” of being unable to maintain their pre-retirem...
Social Security and the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program 12 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Social Security and the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program Abstract: The experience of the reformed Railroad Retirement program has lesson...
How Do the Disabled Cope While Waiting for SSDI? 11 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College The wait time for a Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) award varies from a few months to several years. Little is known about how applicants ...
Reforming the Railroad Retirement System 11 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College The government’s Railroad Retirement program is a clear anomaly in the U.S. economic landscape. The program taxes employers and workers in a specific ...
An Assessment of the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program 11 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College The primary concern of Congress in enacting the Railroad Retirement and Survivor’s Improvement Act of 2001 was the risk of political influence on inve...
The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity 6 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College As the population grows older, an increasing share of the workforce will be past age 60. Older workers have often been considered less productive than...
