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Martin Feldstein
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 769
Citations - 39744
Martin Feldstein is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Investment (macroeconomics) & Social security. The author has an hindex of 109, co-authored 769 publications receiving 38892 citations. Previous affiliations of Martin Feldstein include National Bureau of Economic Research & Nuffield College.
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts
Martin Feldstein,Daniel Altman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a system of Unemployment Insurance Saving Accounts (UISAs) as an alternative to the traditional unemployment insurance system, where individuals are required to save up to 4 percent of their wages in special accounts and to draw unemployment compensation from these accounts instead of taking state unemployment insurance benefits.
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The Importance of Temporary Layoffs: An Empirical Analysis
TL;DR: The traditional view, based on the experience of the depression, pictured the unemployed as an inactive pool of job losers who had to wait for a general business upturn before they could find new jobs as mentioned in this paper.
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Social Security and Private Savings: International Evidence in an Extended Life Cycle Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the impact of social security on private savings depends on two opposing effects: wealth replacement and induced retirement, which can be determined empirically only empirically.
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Social Security and Household Wealth Accumulation: New Microeconometric Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide evidence on the extent to which the accumulation of wealth by individual households responds to differences in social security benefits, and the most important effect of social security on private saving and aggregate capital accumulation.