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Employment in Poland 2005
Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005
present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …
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Una misurazione del benessere nelle regioni italiane
Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004
La limitazione del benessere ai soli aspetti reddituali ignora numerose dimensioni e condizioni fondamentali per il realizzarsi delle potenzialità individuali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di fornire una misura multidimensionale di benessere per le Regioni italiane, che superi la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125921
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Maquiladoras and Standard of Living in Mexico Before and After NAFTA
Huato, Julio - EconWPA - 2005
This study assesses the impact across states of for-export, mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants (commonly known as 'maquiladoras') on various measures of standard of living in Mexico, namely literacy rate, school attendance rates, housing characteristics, life expectancy, infant mortality,...
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Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996
In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show the limitations of applying commonly used open loop Nash equilibrium in characterizing equilibrium transfers from parents to children in the form of bequest, and transfers from...
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Social Security Reform with Uninsurable Income Risk and Endogenous Borrowing Constraints
Rojas, Juan; Urrutia, Carlos - EconWPA - 2004
We study the aggregate effects of a social security reform in a large overlapping generations model where markets are incomplete and households face uninsurable idiosyncratic income shocks. We depart from the previous literature by assuming that, because of lack of commitment in the credit...
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Uruguay, Options for Pensions Reform
Forteza, Alvaro - EconWPA - 2004
We simulate the budget of the main pension institution of the country, the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS), from 1995, the year the reform was passed, to 2050, when the new system should be mature. We perform several sensitivity analyses to evaluate which are the key exogenous variables and...
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The Virtues of Personal Accounts for Social Security: A Comment to Lazear
Chilosi, Alberto - EconWPA - 2005
Edward P. Lazear‘s thesis that “personal accounts are more consistent with economic principles, avoid government moral hazard, and provide more security than government Social Security” is unsound. The same applies to a number of other statements that are made in the process of expounding...
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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2003
I analyze simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education using a model with three overlapping generations and ability differences inside each cohort. Wage tax revenue finances public education and social security benefits. I derive the results both for a...
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Insulating Your Nest Egg in the Storm of Social Security Reform
Gupta, Francis; Eichhorn, David - EconWPA - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134881
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Theoretical Aspects of Retirement Decisions
Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2002
Paper presents a survey of five different approaches to retirement decision analysis. Simple life cycle labour supply model leads to a classical optimization problem of choice between work and leisure, but it is highly limited in explaining retirement decision as a static approach. Comparative...
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