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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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Social Security and the Stock Market: How the Pursuit of Market Magic Shapes the System

Munnell, Alicia H.; Sass, Steven A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The authors explore whether equities could help solve the woes facing the U.S. retirement system in general, and the Social Security shortfall in particular.

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Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives

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

Countries around the world are reforming their social security and pension systems. International studies often focus on social security reforms in Europe and North America, and may include Latin America. Reforms, however, are also occurring in Asia and Africa, and include reforms of voluntary...

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An Analysis of Risk-Taking Behavior for Public Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Mohan, Nancy; Zhang, Ting - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011

This paper investigates the determinants of public pension plan risk-taking behavior using the percentage of total plan assets invested in the equity markets and the pension asset beta as measures of investment risk. We find that government accounting standards strongly affect public fund...

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Privatization, Competition, and Budget Constraints: Disciplining Enterprises in Russia

Earle, John S.; Estrin, Saul - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Privatization and the Structure of Enterprise Ownership

Earle, John S.; Estrin, Saul - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Labor, Business, and Change in Germany and the United States

Wever, Kirsten W. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

privatization, management development systems, supplier relations, and employment relations. The chapters explore the proposition …

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"Mass Privatisation and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis": Is There Really a Relationship?

Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

shows that the estimated correlation of privatization and mortality in country-level data is not robust to recomputing the … mass-privatization measure, to assuming a short lag for economic policies to affect mortality, and to controlling for … evidence that privatization increased mortality during the early 1990s. Finally, we reanalyze the relationship between …

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The Productivity Effects of Privatization in Ukraine: Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data, 1989–2005

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …

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