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Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare states. Using SHARE data, our analyses suggest (1) that there is strong variation in …
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Using pseudo-panel microdata we show that pension generosity affects early retirement decisions. The changes in the average replacement rate and decreases in wealth accrual between 1967 and 2004 have caused an increase in early retirement probabilities from 16% to 63%.
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Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) which provides a rich dataset on the elderly European population. To obtain …
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The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is cross national: the questionnaire is identical across … proceed to solely national use of the data. Moreover, as SHARE is unique in Europe in terms of scope and target sample, its … key SHARE variables to their counterparts in other French surveys. We concentrate on health and income data that we relate …
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The systematic risk of IPO’s in the thinly traded Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) are estimated using Empirical Bayes Estimators (EBE). The sectors that the firms belong to, provide the priors. Comparisons are made with OLS estimators across different estimation and forecasting periods. Two...
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The financial world has discovered the advantages of the Internet immediately. Financial services lend themselves perfectly to electronic media since they do not involve the movement of physical things to achieve clearance and settlement . The need for fast and up to date information has pushed...
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Long run returns of IPO firms’ recommendations in Europe reveal possible conflicts of interest and pressures faced by financial analysts over the 1991-2005 period. Nevertheless, recent European legislations about investment research have led to better long run performance of IPO firms’...
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investment funds that are active in Canada, policy in the Province of Saskatchewan that has restricted ownership since 1974, and …
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than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure … the rest of Canada. Here, too, the explanation is likely found in diseconomies of scale due to weaker demand. For example …, the higher productivity growth in retail and wholesale trade in the rest of Canada was associated with growth in sales …
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institutions with two modern ones, that of Canada and that of the European Union. We will then make an evaluation of the three …
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