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Assessing the maintenance of savings sufficiency over the first decade of retirement

Haveman, Robert; Holden, Karen; Wolfe, Barbara; … - 2005

The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension changes that would place greater responsibility on individuals for accumulation of retirement resources. We contribute to this discussion by examining the extent to which...

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Individualism vs. collectivism : how inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017

The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market returns to their different cultural traits, however, have been rarely researched within the economic literature. This study provides insight on the link between the level of...

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Endogenous pensions and retirement behavior

Filer, Randall; Honig, Marjorie - 2005

This paper suggests that pension characteristics are simultaneously determined along with workers? retirement ages. Both the age of pension eligibility and actual retirement age are determined by the productivity and marginal disutility of work, factors that are influenced by worker and job...

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Labor market effects of minimum wage shocks

Micheli, Martin - 2019

The theoretical literature argues that labor markets outcomes are affected by real minimum wages. Real minimum wages, however, co-move with the business cycle; their correlation with labor market outcomes should therefore not be interpreted causally. We employ structural vector autoregression to...

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Inaccurate age and sex data in the census PUMS files: Evidence and implications

Trent Alexander, J.; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples (PUMS files) of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...

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Gender and racial biases: Evidence from child adoption

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...

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How Chicagoan are Gary Becker's economic models of marriage?

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2009

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting...

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Spatial sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled

Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in higher house prices, this does not necessarily...

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The Short and the Long of it : Stock-Flow Matching in the US Housing Market

Smith, Eric; Xie, Zoe; Fang, Lei - 2022

viability of stock-flow matching in generating the observed outcomes. The paper documents that the probability a house sells … housing slump sooner, faster, and more prominently than slower sales. The simulated stock-flow matching model can not only … the importance of stock-flow matching for understanding housing market dynamics …

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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