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The Role of Pensions in the Labor Market

Gustman, Alan L. - 1993

Employer-sponsored group pension plans offer an unusual window into long-term employment relationships. This is because the pension promise is documented in a set of explicit statements regarding future payment and employment agreements between workers and their employers. In this paper, we show...

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Pension COLAs

Gustman, Alan L. - 1991

This paper studies cost of living adjustments in pensions from the perspective of labor economics. Evidence from longitudinal data on pension and annuity incomes of retirees suggests that pension COLAs are less important in the 1980s than in the 1970s, but that through 1987 they continued to...

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The Stampede Toward Defined Contribution Pension Plans : Fact or Fiction?

Gustman, Alan L. - 1989

This paper questions recent conclusions that the trend towards defined contribution plans and away from defined benefit plans is due to increased pension regulation and/or a changing economic environment. Using data from IRS 5500 filings by pension administrators, we find that at least half of...

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An Analysis Of Pension Benefit Formulas, Pension Wealth And Incentives From Pensions

Gustman, Alan L. - 1988

This paper investigates empirical issues related to pensions. It uses the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), a data set with detailed information both on workers and on their pensions. The paper presents new estimates of pension values for various groups. It compares pension values based on...

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Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

Gustman, Alan L. - 2007

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our model allows those with high time preference rates to find...

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Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commision to Strengthen Social Security

Gustman, Alan L. - 2003

A structural dynamic model of retirement and saving is used to simulate the retirement effects of proposals made by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Provisions reducing the growth in real benefits and increasing actuarial incentives to work reduce retirements. They more...

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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement : Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1997

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...

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Social Security and Retirement in Japan

Oshio, Takashi - 1997

incentive mechanism of the public pension system in Japan affecting the retirement behavior has many things in common with those …

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Option Value of Work, Health Status, and Retirement Decisions in Japan : Evidence from the Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (JSTAR)

Shimizutani, Satoshi - 2014

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …

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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from That in Britain and Japan

Gordon, Robert J. - 1981

.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite … institutions than in the American case. In this comparison Britain is the odd-man-out, with well-publicized industrial strife …

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