Tag: Survey of Income and Program Participation
Abstract Recent research has called attention to alternative employment arrangements that often leave workers without retirement and health benefits and with income instability. At the same time, workers are facing increasing competition from automation and globalization. This competition is of special concern for older workers, who increasingly need longer careers to secure an adequate retirement…
Abstract Analysts often compile packages of Social Security changes based on publicly available projections of the effects of individual provisions. Such analyses may neglect issues of whether and how the provisions might interact to alter intended outcomes, thwarting the proposal’s financing and distributional goals. To inform policymakers about the importance of such interactions in examining…