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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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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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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds Over Early U.S. Trade Policy

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2009

The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...

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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

Davis, Joseph H. - 2007

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...

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Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2007

This paper calculates the Anderson-Neary (2005) trade restrictiveness index (TRI) for the United States using nearly a century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform tariff that yields the same welfare loss as the...

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How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods?

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2007

The United States became a net exporter of manufactured goods around 1910 after a dramatic surge in iron and steel exports began in the mid-1890s. This paper argues that natural resource abundance fueled the expansion of iron and steel exports in part by enabling a sharp reduction in the price...

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