Progress 10/01/08 to 09/30/09
Outputs
OUTPUTS: During late 2008, we updated our German SOEP and CNEF files. In October 2008, we began sending our German SOEP 1894-2007 and equivalent file 1980-2007 containing data from the BHPS-GSOEP-HILDA-PSID-SHP-SLID. These data have been sent to over 160 research teams. We expect to start sending the next wave of our data in December, 2009. PARTICIPANTS: The Swiss Panel Household in Lausanne, Switzerland joined the CNEF data project this year. There has also been strong interest from the Korea Labor Institute in joining the project. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PARTICIPANTS: The CNEF data set can only be compiled with the collaboration of the following partner organizations: Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin (DIW, SOEP), University of Essex (BHPS), the University of Melbourne (HILDA), the University of Michigan (PSID), the University of Toronto (SLID) and the University of Lausanne (SHP). TARGET AUDIENCES: The target audience is the international research community. Last year, over 160 research organizations requested data that we developed here at Cornell University. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, and Australia.
Publications
- Burkhauser, Richard V. Deconstructing European Poverty Measures: What Relative and Absolute Scales Measure. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28 (4) (Fall, 2009): 715-724.
- Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch. Intragenerational Inequality and Intertemporal Mobility. Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Income Inequality, Oxford University Press, (2009) pp. 522-548.
- Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch. Are the Inequality and Mobility Trends of the United States in the European Unions Future United in Diversity, Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.) Oxford University Press. (2009) pp. 280-307.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Takashi Oshio, and Ludmila Rovba. How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed Over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan. Journal of Income Distribution, 17 (1) (March, 2008): 87-109.
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Progress 10/01/07 to 09/30/08
Outputs
OUTPUTS: During 2008, we updated our GSOEP and CNEF files twice. We began sending our GSOEP 1894-2006 and equivalent file 1980-2006 containing data from the BHPS-GSOEP-HILDA-PSID-SLID out in April 2008. To date these data have been sent to over 100 research teams. In October 2008, we began sending our GSOEP 1984-2007 and equivalent file 1980-2007 containing data from the BHPS-GSOEP-HILDA-PSID-SHP-SLID. To date, these data have been requested by over 70 research teams from around the world. We expect to start sending the next wave of our data in October, 2009. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, and Australia.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/07 to 12/31/07
Outputs
We sent the GSOEP 1984-2005 and equivalent file 1980-2005 BHPS-GSOEP-HILDA-PSID-SLID data to over 150 research teams around the world in January, 2007. These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany and beginning with our most recent release, Australia. We expect to send the next wave of our data in January, 2008.
Impacts
The data developed from this project have significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of exits from the labor force.
Publications
- Burkhauser, R.V. and Schroeder, M. 2007. A Method for Comparing the Economic Outcomes of Working-Age Population with Disabilities in Germany and the United States. Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 127, (2): 227-258.
- Burkhauser, R.V., Oshio, T., and Rovba, L. 2007. Winners and Losers over the 1990s Business Cycles in Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and the United States. Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 127, (1): 75-84.
- Burkhauser, R.V. and Lillard, D. 2007. The Expanded Cross-National Equivalent File: HILDA Joins its International Peers. Australian Economic Review, 40, (2) (April): 208-215.
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Progress 01/01/06 to 12/31/06
Outputs
We sent the GSOEP 1984-2003 and equivalent file 1980-2003 BHPS-GSOEP- PSID-SLID data to over 150 research teams around the world in March, 2005. These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to updating the data discussed above, we will for the first time include data from Australia. We expect to send the next wave of our data in January, 2007.
Impacts
The data developed from this project have significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of exits from the labor force.
Publications
- Feng, S., Burkhauser, R.V. and Butler, J.S. 2006. Levels and Long-Term Trends in Earnings Inequality: Overcoming Current Population Survey Censoring Problems Using the GB2 Distribution. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 24 (1) (January 2006):57-62.
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Progress 01/01/05 to 12/31/05
Outputs
We sent the GSOEP 1984-2003 and equivalent file 1980-2003 BHPS-GSOEP-PSID-SLID data to over 150 research teams around the world in March, 2005. These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Federal Republic of Germany. We expect to send the next wave of our data in March, 2006.
Impacts
The data developed from this project have significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of exits from the labor force.
Publications
- Burkhauser, R.V. and Rovba, L. 2005. Income Inequality in the 1990s: Comparing the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 4, (1) (June):1-16.
- Lillard, D.R. and Burkhauser, R.V. 2005. Income Inequality and Health: A Cross-Country Analysis. Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 125 (1):109-118.
- Burkhauser, R.V., Giles, P., Lillard, D.R. and Schwarze, J. 2005. Until Death Do Us Part: An Analysis of the Economic Well-Being of Widows in Four Countries. Journal of Gerontology, 60B (5) (September): S238-S246.
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Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04
Outputs
We used funding from the National Institute on Aging to continue the development of the CNEF through 2004. The new project is called 'Adding Health Variables to the CNEF.' We sent the GSOEP 1984-2002 and equivalent file 1980-2002 BHPS-GSOEP-PSID-SLID data to over 150 research teams around the world in March, 2004. These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Federal Republic of Germany. We expect to send the next wave of our data in March, 2005.
Impacts
The data developed from this project have significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of retirement.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
We received new funding from the National Institute on Aging to continue the development of the CNEF through 2004. The new project is called 'Adding Health Variables to the CNEF.' We sent the GSOEP 1984-2001 and equivalent file 1980-2001 BHPS-GSOEP-PSID-SLID data to over 150 research teams around the world on March 11, 2003. These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Federal Republic of Germany. We expect to send the next wave of our data in March, 2004.
Impacts
The data developed from this project have significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of retirement.
Publications
- Burkhauser, R.V., Giles, P., Lillard, D.R. and Schwartze, J. 2003. Changes in the Economic Well-Being of Widows Following the Death of Their Husbands: A Four Country Comparison, Elke Holst, Jennifer Hunt, and Juergen Schupp, editors. Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Vol. 123, Number 1. : 151-162.
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Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02
Outputs
We received new funding from the National Institute on Aging to continue the development of the CNEF through 2004. The new project is called 'Adding Health Variables to the CNEF.' We are scheduled to send the GSOEP 1984-2001 and equivalent file 1980-2001 BHPS-GSOEP-PSID-SLID data to over 100 research teams around the world on Feburary 1, 2003. These data are being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Impacts
The data developed from this project have significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of retirement.
Publications
- Burkhauser, R.V., Giles, P., Lillard, D.R. and Schwartze, J. 2003. Changes in the Economic Well-Being of Widows Following the Death of Their Husbands: A Four Country Comparison, Elke Holst, Jennifer Hunt, and Juergen Schupp, editors. Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Vol. 123, Number 1. (forthcoming)
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Progress 01/01/01 to 12/31/01
Outputs
While external funding from the National Institute on Aging on this project ended in 2000, we continue to pursue the goals of the program. We have just sent the GSOEP 1984-2000 and equivalent file 1980-2000 BHPS-GSOEP-PSID-SLID data to over 100 research teams around the world. This data is being used to estimate the economic well-being and behavioral consequences of social policy on older people in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Impacts
The data developed from this project has significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policymakers better understand how social programs ameliorate the economic risks of retirement.
Publications
- Budetti, P.P., Burkhauser, R.V., Gregory, J.M. and Hunt, H.A. (eds.). 2001. Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research.
- Burkhauser, R.V. 2001. What Policymakers Need to Know about Poverty Dynamics. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20 (4) (Fall 2001): 757-759.
- Burkhauser, R.V., Butrica, B.A. Daly, M.C. and Lillard, D.R. 2001. The Cross-National Equivalent File: A Product of Cross-National Research. In Irene Becker, Notburga Ott, and Gabriele Rolf (eds.) Soziale Sicherung In Einer Dynamischen Gesellschaft. Frankfurt, Germany: Campus Verlagi, pp. 354-376.
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Progress 01/01/00 to 12/31/00
Outputs
We have completed this project. Over the years we have shown the usefulness of using comparable longitudinal data in tracing the relative employment and economic well-being of older populations in the United States and Germany. In the last year of our project we have added the British Household Panel Survey and the Canadian Survey of Labour Income Dynamics to our other two panels. This year we sent these data to over 100 research teams around the world. We have also published the first paper using these four data sets. The paper evaluates how household income varies after long term exit from employment in the four countries.
Impacts
The data developed from this project has significantly increased empirical analyses of the employment and economic well-being of older people from a cross-national perspective. The substantive research from this project has helped policy makers better understand how social programs ameriorate the economic risks of retirement.
Publications
- Daly, Mary C. and Richard V. Burkhauser. 2001 "The Supplemental Security Income Program." In Robert Moffitt (ed.), Means Tested Transfer Programs in the United States. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press for the NBER.
- Burkhauser, Richard V. and Robert R. Weathers II. 2001 "Access to Wealth Among Older Workers and How it is Distributed: Data From the Health and Retirement Study." In Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolfe (eds.), Assets and the Disadvantaged: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership. New York: Russell Sage Press.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Dean R. Lillard and Paulo M. Valenti. 2001 "Long-Term Labor Force Exit and Economic Well-Being: A Cross-National Comparison of Public Income Support," Vierteljahrsheft Zur Wirtschaftsforschung.
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Progress 01/01/99 to 12/31/99
Outputs
We have continued our work showing how the economic well-being of older persons has varied over the last decades in the United States and Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Last year we added the Canadian Survey of Labor Income Dynamics to the other panels. We have also established the fact that accommodation by firms reduces the speed at which men with disabilities apply for government disability transfer payments using data from the Health and Retirement Study.
Impacts
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Publications
- Bound, John and Richard V. Burkhauser. 1999. "Economic Analysis of Transfer Programs Targeted on People with Disabilities," In Orley C. Ashenfelter and David Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics. Volume 3C. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (1999):3417-3528.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., J.S. Butler, Yang-Woo Kim, and Robert Weathers. 1999. "The Importance of Accommodation on the Timing of Male Disability Insurance Application: Results from the Survey of Disability and Work and the Health and Retirement Study." Journal of Human Resources, 34 (3) (Summer 1999):589-611.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Amy D. Crews, Mary C. Daly, and Stephen P. Jenkins. 1999."Testing the Significance of Income Distribution Changes Over the 1980s Business Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison." Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14 (3) (May - June 1999): 253-272. Burkhauser, Richard V., F. Thomas Juster, and Jules J.M. Theeuwes.1999. Introduction: The Health, Wealth, and Work of Older People. Special Issue: Labour Economics, Vol. 6. No. 2, (June 1999): vii - ix.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Amy Crews-Cutts, and Dean Lillard. 1999. "How Older People in the United States and Germany Fared in the Growth Years of the 1980s: A Cross-Sectional versus a Longitudinal View." Journal of Gerontology: Social Science, 54B, (5) (September 1999): S279-S290.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Debra Dwyer, Maarten Lindeboom, Jules Theeuwes, and Isolde Woittiez. 1999. "Health, Work, and Economic Well-Being of Older Workers, Aged 51 to 61: A Cross-National Comparison Using the United States HRS and The Netherlands CERRA Data Sets." In James Smith and Robert Willis (eds.), Wealth, Work, and Health: Innovations in Measurement in the Social Sciences. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, (1999), : 233-265.
- Burkhauser, Richard V. 1999. "The Use of Functional Capacity Measures in Public and Private Programs in the United States and in Other Countries." In Gooloo S. Wunderlich (ed.) Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, (1999): pp. 63-68.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Barbara A. Butrica, and Mary C. Daly. 1999. "The PSID-GSOEP Equivalent File: A Product of Cross-National Research." In Wolfgang Voges (ed.), Dynamic Approaches to Comparative Social Research: Recent Developments and Applications. Aldershot, Great Britain: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., (1999): 53-66.
- Burkhauser, Richard V. 1999. "Touching the Third Rail: Alternative Solutions for Bringing the Social Security Retirement System into Long Term Balance." In James C. Hickman (ed)., The 1996 Bowles Symposium, Society of Actuaries Monograph M-RS99-1, (1999):23-29.
- Burkhauser, Richard V., J.S. Butler, and Andrew J. Houtenville. 1999. "Changes in Permanent Income Inequality in the United States and Germany in the 1990s." Vierteljahrsheft Zur Wirtschaftsforschung, No 2 (1999):284-289.
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Progress 01/01/98 to 12/31/98
Outputs
We have continued our work showing how the economic well-being of older persons has varied over the last decades in the United States and Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We have also established the fact that accommodation by firms reduces the speed at which men with disabilities apply for government disability transfer payments using data from the Health and Retirement Study.
Impacts
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Publications
- Burkhauser, Richard V., J.S. Butler, Yang-Woo Kim, and Robert Weathers. "The Importance of Accommodation on the Timing of Male Disability Insurnace Application: Results from the Survey of Disability and Work and the Health and Retirement Study." Journal of Human Resources. (1999)
- Burkhauser, Richard V., Amy D. Crews, Mary C. Daly, and Stephen P. Jenkins. "Testing the Significance of Income Distribution Changes Over the 1980s Business Cycle: A Cross-National COmparison. Journal of Applied Econometrics. (1999)
- Burkhauser, Richard V. and Mary C. Daly. "Disability and Work: The Experiences of American and German Men." Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economics Revew, 2(1998): 17-29.
- Crews, Amy D. and Richard V. Burkhauser. "Changes in Economic Well-Being and Income Distribution in the 1980s: Different Measures, Different Outcomes." In Peter Flora, Philip deJong, Julian LeGrande, and Jun-Young Kim (eds.), New Issues in Social Security, Volume 4 International Studies on Social Security. Aldershot, Great Britain: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (1998), pp. 239-264.
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