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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summa...

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2011

the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … employment circumstances of older workers. We find that these "exogenous" reforms can have a very large effect on the labor force …

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What Have We Learned from the Reagan Deficits and Their Disappearance?

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2021

chronic large deficits. The familiar conclusion that sustained government deficits at full employment depress private capital …

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Saving and growth : evidence from micro data

Paxson, Christina H. - In: European economic review : EER 40 (1996) 2, pp. 255-288

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Personal retirement saving programs and asset accumulation : reconciling the evidence

Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 23-106). 1998

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Implications of rising personal retirement saving

Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 125-167). 1998

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The taxation of pensions : a shelter can become a trap

Shoven, John B.; Wise, David A. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 173-211). 1998

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Health, income, and inequality over the life cycle

Deaton, Angus; Paxson, Christina H. - In: Frontiers in the economics of aging, (pp. 431-457). 1998

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Financial Intermediation in the United States

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2007

The principal rationales that give rise to financial intermediation are benefits of size and specialization, the diversification of specific asset risks, and the pooling of even broader classes of risk. Each is a significant factor in accounting for the U.S. economy's reliance on intermediation....

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Increasing Indebtedness and Financial Stability in the United States

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2010

The U.S. economy's nonfinancial debt ratio has risen since 1980 to a level that is extraordinary in comparison with prior historical experience. Approximately one-half of this rise has consisted of increased indebtedness (relative to income) of borrowers in the economy's private sector,...

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Annuity Prices and Saving Behavior in the United States

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2010

The observed reluctance of most individuals in the United States to buy individual life annuities, and the concomitant approximately flat average age-wealth profile, stand in sharp contradiction to the standard life cycle model of consumption-saving behavior. The analysis in this paper lends...

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