Archive: Alice Zulkarnain
The brief’s key findings are: When women become mothers, their earnings often take a substantial, and permanent, hit that becomes larger with each additional child. The question is, how do Social Security provisions address this motherhood penalty once women enter retirement? The results show that Social Security offsets a substantial portion of the motherhood penalty,…
The brief’s key findings are: Working longer is a powerful way to improve retirement security, and some suggest it also improves health. But does working longer improve health or does good health lead to working longer? A temporary tax policy change in the Netherlands that encouraged some older workers to stay in the labor forc…