Tag: housing market

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Abstract This paper uses the Health and Retirement Study to explore how local cost-of-living affects Social Security replacement rates and household behavior.  In theory, labor markets with high cost-of-living also offer more compensation.  If this compensating differential is paid in wages, rather than benefits, it reduces the share of earnings replaced by Social Security due to t…

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Slack, Citizens Bank, Penguin Random House, Verizon, 3M, Twitter – the list is long and growing of companies that have allowed employees to continue working remotely even though the pandemic seems to be easing. The COVID-19 upheaval in lifestyles – the moving around to larger homes, to the countryside or to an affordable city –…