Tax Rates and Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program: Current Law and Alternative Reforms

National Tax Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 623-650

  Hoynes, Hilary Williamson ^a   Moffitt, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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