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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632739
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
the provision of paid parental leave, even for short periods (as usually available in Australia), will benefit children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265289
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Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon; Paull, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court data from Australia's three largest states, we seek to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604671
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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A.; Siminski, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183123