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The contirbutors to this book provide a provocative assessment of the effectiveness of various policies and practices designed to help disadvantaged segments of our population overcome the obstacles in their path to upeard economic mobility.
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By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among …
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benefits. Workers in such arrangements, in turn, are much less likely to receive pension, health insurance, and other benefits …
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The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead … of the timing and frequency of unemployment spells. We hypothesize that unemployment is more likely during periods in … generated unemployment spells for men and women across the earnings distribution. We find lower income workers suffer greater …
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This volume explores the implications of an aging workforce for a number of social programs in the coming decades, and point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those programs.
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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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treating issues raised by life expectancy (e.g., Social Security, pensions, older workers), a unified approach should be …
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Unemployment insurance (UI) provides temporary income support to workers who have lost their jobs and are seeking …
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privatization and unemployment in postcommunist countries, showing that there is little support for the proposed mechanism by which …
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