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Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...
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Employing a variant of GARP, we study consistency in aging by comparing the choices of younger adults (YA) and older …
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The aging of the populations of all developed nations over the next 40 years will have an important impact on welfare … developments into the next century. A range of possible policy responses to the increased cost of an aging population is considered … slight; the most effective way of coping with the cost of an aging population is by ensuring that the long-run rate of …
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Conventional economic wisdom suggests because of the aging process, social security systems will have to be retrenched … under aging in France, Italy, the UK, and the US. Simulations for the year 2050 steady state demographic, economic and … negative income effect induced by aging, which reduces the profitability of the existing social security system, and thus the …
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We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy to...
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current and future policy discussions. It describes the aging of the British population over this century, the reasons and … major effects: the aging of the workforce, increasing numbers over retirement age, especially since the nineteen fifties …
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This study investigates the labour force behaviour of older married couples in Germany. Monthly observations from the first 11 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used to describe and analyse the relationship between the labour force behaviour of husbands and wives. The...
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We document and study international differences in both ownership and holdings of stocks, private businesses, homes, and mortgages among households aged fifty or more in thirteen countries, using new and comparable survey data. We employ counterfactual techniques to decompose observed...
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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the agent's motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides …
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