the population. Reinvention of human capital policies is required to avoid increasing welfare state dependency among the … is both distortionary and inequitable. Early retirement and pension schemes should be made actuarially fairer as they …

Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) on Social Security benefits received by households. The provisions reduce … pension and were not subject to Social Security payroll taxes (“noncovered” employment). We find that about 3.5 percent of … the WEP, the Social Security benefit reduction is capped at one-half of the amount of the pension from noncovered …

aging population. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system … model to evaluate two schemes to raise the existing universal basic pension income to the poverty line, namely, uniform … benefits and pension-tested benefits. We find that pension-testing effectively improves the targeting efficiency, and …

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …

antipoverty policies to his support for welfare reform and federal job creation programs …