SOCIAL SECURITY

This paper estimates the effect of early receipt of Social Security retirement benefits on poverty among older women using data from the RAND version of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Women are particularly vulnerable to poverty in old age due to their longer projected l…

Despite the critical nature of the Social Security Contribution Evasion (SSCE) phenomenon, relatively few studies have investigated and analysed the problem. The vast majority of contemporary studies have been undertaken in the USA and Europe; very few in the countries of the de…

The title of my dissertation is "Essays on Dynamic Fiscal Policy: Theory and Empirics". My dissertation consists of three chapters. In my first chapter, I have tried to understand the effect of government spending on aggregate and disaggregate consumption. Empirical estimates of…

This dissertation explores the forerunner of the modern senior citizens' lobby, the Townsend Old Age Pension Movement, a large and politically powerful national organization that emerged during the Great Depression and for the first time brought older Americans together to agita…

The main contribution of this work is to extend the framework for discussion on the privatization of social security by applying Abba Lerner's theory of functional finance and to analyze the institutional background of social security reform in Turkey, looking also at its gender…