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ISSUE: No. 2, July 2022
The Bulletin on Retirement and Disability
A free digital quarterly summarizing research in the NBER's Retirement and Disability Research Center
Forty percent of US workers have access to employer-provided short-term disability insurance (STDI). This insurance generally pays benefits to disabled workers during the five-month waiting period between disability onset and when Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits can commence. By providing income during the waiting period, STDI may encourage more disabled workers to apply for SSDI, leading to more SSDI awards. However, employers who offer STDI have a...
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Basic facts about the size of the immigrant population, the fraction undocumented, and future trends in these measures are crucial for analysis of Social Security and other public policies. However, there is a lack of quality data on the number of undocumented immigrants that reside in the US at a given point in time, as standard government surveys do not indicate a person’s legal status.
In Projecting Trends in Undocumented and Legal Immigrant Populations in the...
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In recent years, many state and local governments have decreased the generosity of the benefits promised to plan participants due to rising fiscal burdens. In Reductions in the Generosity of State and Local Employee Pensions: Comparison of Plans with and without Social Security Coverage (NBER RDRC Working Paper NB21-09), researchers Nino Abashidze, Robert Clark, and Lee Craig offer a history of retirement plans for state and local workers in the US, with a focus on the...
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