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This paper examines the impact of labor market institutions (LMI) on business cycle (BC) synchronization. The authors first develop a two-country right-to-manage model of wage bargaining. They find that, following a symmetric demand change, cross-country differences in LMI generate divergent...
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Over the past few decades, risks associated with providing for financial security in retirement have increasingly …
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Many economic applications have found quantile models useful when the explanatory variables may have varying impacts throughout the distribution of the outcome variable. Traditional quantile estimators provide conditional quantile treatment effects. Typically, we are interested in unconditional...
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this varies within the U.S. population, and whether this uncertainty influences financial decisions related to retirement … planning. To illuminate these issues, the authors present empirical evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Internet …
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retirement investing behavior. The authors developed and tested two modifications to the section on investment performance on the … same hypothetical task allocating retirement investments over a range of six possible typical investment fund options …
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contribute to the differential levels of retirement preparedness between women and men. However, little is known about the …
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What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …
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Previous empirical literature has found a sharp decline in consumption during the first years of retirement implying … that individuals do not save enough for their retirement. This phenomenon has been called the retirement consumption puzzle …. In contrast to some of the previous studies, the authors find no evidence of the retirement consumption puzzle during the …
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Retirement Study. They compare model simulations with those from a standard unitary model for a set of policy reforms; such as …
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This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as Òunretirement,Ó in which retirees appear to … reverse their retirement decisions and return to work. Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, the author shows … that nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves partial retirement or unretirement …
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