U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Policy.

How Have People Responded to Changes in the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000?

 
by Jae G. Song and Joyce Manchester
Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 67 No. 1, 2007
Probability of transition from not working in t1 to working in t2 and from not entitled in t1 to entitled in t2, by age at the end of t1 (in percent)
Age at end of t1 t1=1996
t2=1997
t1=1997
t2=1998
t1=1998
t2=1999
t1=1999
t2=2000
t1=2000
t2=2001
t1=2001
t2=2002
t1=2002
t2=2003
Not working in t1 to working in t2
65 16.58 17.36 17.73 19.44 19.35 18.37 18.40
66 14.75 15.91 16.20 18.10 17.74 17.08 16.32
67 13.30 13.89 14.10 16.23 15.56 14.57 14.95
68 11.10 12.01 11.99 13.70 13.86 13.46 13.01
69 9.97 10.41 11.01 11.57 11.69 11.16 11.19
Not entitled in t1 to entitled in t2
65 1.76 1.96 2.62 4.72 0.75 0.86 1.32
66 0.97 1.06 1.2 2.96 0.59 0.37 0.85
67 0.72 0.69 1.06 2.0 0.48 0.27 0.35
68 0.65 0.67 0.74 1.61 0.5 0.42 0.41
69 1.24 1.49 1.52 1.74 1.09 0.87 1.12
SOURCE: Authors' tabulations using the 1 percent extract of the Social Security Administration's Master Earnings File and Master Beneficiary Record.

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