Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows
In: The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan
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- Michael D. Hurd & David A. Wise, 1991. "Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows," NBER Working Papers 3843, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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JEL classification:
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
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