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Inefficiency in Social Security Trust Funds Forecasts
Lahiri, Kajal; Zhang, Junyan; Zhao, Yongchen - 2021
We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust fund balance, trust fund ratio made during 1980-2020 with horizons up to 95 years. We find that the reported deterioration in the accuracy of the forecasts during 2010’s has...
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Wage and Employment Cyclicalities at the Establishment Level
Merkl, Christian; Stueber, Heiko - 2021
cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply
Kesternich, Iris - 2020
Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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Gift exchange in the workplace: money or attention?
Dur, Robert - 2008
altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? An information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when …
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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...
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The Political (In)Stability of Funded Pension Systems
Beetsma, Roel M. W. J. - 2020
We analyze the political stability of capital funded social security. In particular, using a stylized theoretical framework we study the mechanisms behind governments capturing pension assets in order to lower current taxes. This is followed by an analysis of the analogous mechanisms in a...
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The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Lending on Small Business Loans
Kim, Jin-Hyuk - 2020
We investigate the impact of peer-to-peer lending on the small business loans originated by US depository institutions that are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act. We present a model where a borrower can choose between a traditional bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry...
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A Theory of Outside Equity : Financing Multiple Projects
Bougheas, Spiros - 2019
In the financial economics literature debt contracts provide efficient solutions for addressing managerial moral hazard problems. We analyze a model with multiple projects where the manager obtains private information about their quality after the contract with investors is agreed. The...
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