The Minimum Wage and Incentives for Full-Time Work Under the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test

Gary V. Engelhardt

Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from Center for Retirement Research

Abstract: This paper examined how the earnings test affects the hours and employment of men who claim early benefits. It uses 1982-2016 data from the Current Population Survey and 1992-2014 data from the Health and Retirement Study. Critical components of the analysis include the idea that for any fixed earnings-test threshold amount, an increase in the hourly wage at which a beneficiary can work reduces the number of hours needed annually to hit the threshold. This feature of the test and substantial state-by-calendar year variation from increases in the minimum wage, which lower the threshold level of hours at which the earnings test binds, are used to identify the impact of the test on labor supply on the intensive and extensive margins for men who claim early.

Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2018-10
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