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Earned Income Tax Credit and Expected Social Security Retirement Benefits Among Low Income Women - Working Paper
Author: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Expected Social Security Benefits Among Low-income Mothers
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Category : Earned income tax credit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been found to lead to increases in employment and earnings growth for low-educated women. That increased employment and earnings may result in a greater fraction of those women qualifying for Social Security benefits and their receiving a higher benefit in the event they do qualify. In this study, we determine the extent to which the labor supply responses to the EITC will improve the financial security of low-income women when they near retirement age. We use data from the 1993 and 1996 SIPP-SSA matched data files and the CWHS to estimate the impact of EITC expansions on employment, quarters of coverage, and earnings growth. Earlier research exploited the differential expansions in the credit for single mothers with two or more qualifying children and for single mothers with only one child. Those results, consistent with our earlier work, show that the EITC increased both employment and earnings growth of single mothers in the 5 years following expansion. We then simulate the impact of EITC expansion on the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME) amount and the Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) of a sample of low-educated women. The results show that the EITC increases the share of women who are eligible for Social Security retirement benefits by between 2% and 3%. Further, we find that lifetime earnings increase by between 6% and 17% and the AIME by a similar amount.
The Earned Income Tax Credit and expected Social Security retirement benefits among low-income women
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Category : Earned income tax credit
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Expected Social Security Benefits Among Low-income Mothers
Author: Income Security for Older Women
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Retirement Income and EmploymentPublisher:
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Category : Social security
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Advance Earned Income Tax Credit
Author: United States. Internal Revenue ServicePublisher:
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Category : Earned income tax credit
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit
Author: Nada EissaPublisher:
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Category : Earned income tax credit
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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In a series of major expansions starting in 1987, the earned income tax credit (EITC) has become a central part of the federal government's anti-poverty strategy. In this paper, we examine the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86), which included an expansion of the EITC, on labor force participation and hours of work. The expansion of the credit affected an easily identifiable group, single women with children, but is predicted to have had no effect on another group, single women without children. Other features of TRA86, such as the increase in the value of dependent exemptions and the large increase in the standard deduction for head of household filers, are predicted by economic theory to have reinforced the impact of the EITC on the relative labor supply outcomes of single women with and without children. We therefore compare the change in labor supply of single women with children to the change in labor supply of single women without children. We find that between 1984-1986 and 1988-1989 single women with children increased their labor force participation by 1.4 percentage points (from a base of 73.1 percent) relative to single women without children. We explore a number of possible explanations for this finding and conclude that the 1987 expansion of the EITC and the other provisions of TRA86 are the most likely explanations. We find no effect of the EITC expansion on the hours of work of single women with children who were already in the labor force. Compared to other elements of the welfare system, the EITC appears to produce little distortion of work incentives.
How Will Today's Women Fare in Yesterday's Traditional Retirement System?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Retirement Income and EmploymentPublisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Self-employment Tax
Author: Privatizing Social Security
Author: Martin FeldsteinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226241823
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." —Library Journal "[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."—Timothy Taylor, Public Interest