Research
Older Workers Claim Social Security While Working, Upending Beliefs About Raising the Retirement Age
Policy Note | Challenging the widespread assumption that people claim their retirement benefits only when they retire, more than one-fifth of older workers in the United States start claiming Social Security benefits as soon as they are eligible, even while working for pay. Low-income older workers are more than three times as likely as high-income workers to claim early, indicating a reliance on Social Security payments to supplement low wages. Those who claim before the full retirement age...
Policy Note | Unpaid care work — the vast majority of such work in the United States — is primarily shouldered by economically vulnerable people. The costs associated with unpaid care work compound existing economic insecurity, leading to higher rates of poverty in old age. It is essential to support informal caregivers by recognizing caregiving as work and expanding their access to social safety net programs and providing paid family care leave.
Policy Note | Up to 40 percent of middle-income workers are at risk of downward mobility into poverty or near-poverty in retirement because of an inefficient retirement system that disproportionately benefits those with high incomes. Universal retirement accounts and providing workers with more equitable and better targeted tax incentives are among the best methods to supplement Social Security and prevent downward mobility in retirement.
This paper argues that the combined effect of regularities in prices of production and the concentration of compositions of capitals produces the empirical regularities in relative prices.
This paper offers an adaptation of the square social accounting matrix used in economic planning to the rectangular vertical transaction matrix used in post-Keynesian monetary economics.
In this paper we develop a multi-regime global VAR model to study the spill-over effects in financial markets.
This book aims to make explicit exactly what implicit assumptions about the informational state of the observer support frequentist analysis.
This paper is the second of two following the history of thought on socialist alternatives to capitalism.
This paper is the first of two following the history of thought on socialist alternatives to capitalism.
