Elderly Immigrants' Labor Supply Response to Supplemental Security Income.

Welfare for the elderly: the effects of SSI on pre-retirement labor supply

This paper studies pre-eligibility-age labor market disincentives created by the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Asset and income limits might induce individuals nearing the eligibility age to work less. We exploit states’ supplementation of federal SSI benefits to estimate the effects of SSI on pre-retirement labor supply, using SIPP data. We find some evidence that generous SSI be...

Social Security Eligibility and the Labor Supply of Elderly Immigrants

The growth in noncitizen SSI caseloads 1979-1996: aging versus new immigrant effects.

OBJECTIVES The goal of this research is to assess the degree to which the recent growth in the rate of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) usage is concentrated among recently arrived elderly immigrants or among earlier arriving immigrants who have "aged in place" and thus become eligible for benefits. METHODS We use 1980 and 1990 Census data and 1997 Current Population Survey (CPS) data to ex...

Appropriate Labor income and Capital gain tax rates functions extraction based on Overlapping Generation Models: Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) approach

In this study, using the overlapping generation (OLG (model and the Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium (DSGE) approach, the optimal form of labor income tax rate and capital income tax functions is extracted for the economy of Iran using annual time series data during 1357 to 1397. The results of comparing the calibration and simulation of the designed model show that the optimal functions ...

Does the Supplemental Security Income Program Reduce Disability among the Elderly?

Given increasing evidence that medical care cannot fully explain variation in population health and increasing research on the relationship between socioeconomic factors and health, might non-health policies affect health? This research examines whether Supplemental Security Income (SSI) affects disability among the elderly. We use the 1990 and 2000 censuses, employing state and year fixed effe...