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The Effects of Metropolitan Job Growth on the Size Distribution of Family Income

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1991

This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual … Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster … metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the lowest income quintile by a significantly greater percentage than for …

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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians

Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

Workers in rural areas earn lower wages than nonrural workers and previous evidence has attributed these differences to … the broader group of rural workers. While there is extensive evidence on both the structure of wages and the source of …. Second, it provides new evidence of the structure of wages faced by American Indians, a group typically ignored in empirical …

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Pensions, Social Security, and Asset Accumulation

Pozo, Susan; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Pensions, Social Security, and Asset Accumulation

Pozo, Susan; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers?

Wolff, Edward N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The share of Americans with defined contribution pension plans now exceeds the share of those with defined benefit plans. Wolff refers to this as the "great transformation" and it leads him to examine recent evidence to see whether there are winners and losers resulting from this switch away...

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Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives

Muir, Dana M.; Turner, John A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Muir and Turner gather an international roster of pension experts who present what they think would be the ideal pension systems for their countries and why. Those countries include the United States, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, and Japan.

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Longevity Policy: Facing Up to Longevity Issues Affecting Social Security, Pensions, and Older Workers

Turner, John A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

treating issues raised by life expectancy (e.g., Social Security, pensions, older workers), a unified approach should be …

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Private Pension Policies in Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Turner, John; Watanabe, Noriyasu - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

policy, risk and insurance from risk, pension financing, labor market issues, and the adequacy of retirement income. …

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Pensions and Productivity

Dorsey, Stuart; Cornwell, Christopher; Macpherson, David - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Employers typically view their investment in pension plans as a means of providing retirement income for their workers … on the productivity theory of pensions. …

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