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state, the interaction between taxation and markets, the future of pension and health care systems, and international tax …
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Contrary to the popular image of change and turnover, most Americans spend the majority of their working lives employed in a single firm. The original essays in this book discuss the origins and importance of these internal labor markets, providing new insights into their changing power and...
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Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to promote female participation. The contributors to Women and Information Technology look at reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies intended to...
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Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately … fewer workers making pension contributions than there are retirees drawing pension benefits, but the youth-to-age imbalance … Children and Pensions, Alessandro Cigno and Martin Werding examine the way pension policy and child-related benefits affect …
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Why are pension funds so large and benefits so small? This examination of the 120-year-old American system of … the many sides of pensions and pension policy addresses questions of whom the system benefits, its direct and social costs … income. Ghilarducci describes the history of pension funds and the involvement of unions in bargaining. She takes up the …
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aging population will lead to more pension spending; yet postponing retirement mitigates the impact of this, and may be the …
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insurance, and the implications of moves to private pension funds. Atkinson does not attempt to determine whether or not …
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income opportunities. It is the first book length study to combine evidence on private pension and Social Security … retirement patterns; the amounts of private pension and Social Security benefits that workers would receive at alternate … retirement ages; the prospective budget sets facing potential retirees from ages 60 to 68; and variation across pension plans in …
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Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to provide such basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries are issues that most developed countries do not face, including...
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Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market...
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