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
Estimates of the effects on earnings, by percentile and year (in thousands of dollars)
Percentile 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Those who have attained aged 65–69
10th 0.00056 0.03683 -0.02053 0.02908 -0.07619 -0.00565 -0.11714
20th -0.20244 -0.29371 -0.34971 -0.32041 -0.53094 -0.44509 -0.54072
30th -0.16369 -0.36904 -0.47323 -0.67247 -0.63701 -0.74058 -0.9167
40th -0.34477 -0.52449 -0.59893 -0.5643 -0.6323 -0.69133 -0.92513
50th -0.31006 -0.65198 -0.67478 -0.48731 -0.24625 -0.28436 -0.34423
60th -0.32557 -0.36787 -0.31126 0.13524 0.46723 0.80307 0.869911
70th -0.25869 -0.61414 -0.81221 -0.23893 0.533749 1.039548 1.249459
80th -0.21848 -0.75587 -0.99323 -0.65697 0.746954 0.985767 1.06506
90th -0.15816 -1.30889 -1.83359 -2.23557 -1.32472 -1.42702 -1.45545
Those turning age 65
10th 0.17485 0.20848 0.2435 0.19588 0.31106 0.18193 0.26088
20th 0.194055 0.384275 0.23257 0.410235 0.339365 0.396805 0.47337
30th 0.27262 0.29078 0.08286 0.317939 0.081929 0.32398 0.36899
40th 0.1762 0.2872 0.127579 0.99647 0.484259 0.744749 0.75802
50th 0.051597 0.041761 -0.27601 1.532 1.445913 2.27664 2.035078
60th 0.049531 0.547431 -0.54001 1.70617 1.759881 2.538312 2.399152
70th -0.2506 0.589625 -1.3417 1.278448 1.159056 1.625686 2.544241
80th -0.77987 -0.09979 -1.45721 0.711451 -0.22342 0.035698 0.415678
90th -1.59195 -0.27562 -1.87307 0.257538 -1.05071 -0.53049 0.260109
SOURCE: Authors' estimates.

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