SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

No 50628, Working Papers from University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics

Abstract: The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program in the United States creates incentives for potential aged recipients to reduce labor supply prior to becoming eligible, and past research finds evidence of such behavior for older men. There may be a migration response to across-state variation in SSI benefits, which is of interest in its own right and can bias estimates of the effects of SSI benefits on labor supply. We fail to find evidence that older individuals migrate in response to SSI benefits, or that the labor supply disincentive effects of SSI are spurious and instead reflect migration behavior.

Keywords: Supplemental Security Income; Migration; Labor supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H72 I38 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2006-02
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