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Automatic enrollment, employer match rates and employee compensation in 401(k) plans

Butrica, Barbara A.; Karamcheva, Nadia S. - 2015

This study uses restricted-access employer-level microdata from the National Compensation Survey to examine the relationship between automatic enrollment and employee compensation. By boosting plan participation, automatic enrollment has the potential to increase employer defined contribution...

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Bridging the gap in pension participation : how much can universal tax-deferred pension coverage hope to achieve?

Karamcheva, Nadia; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - 2013

In light of the declining pension coverage of low-income workers, policy makers have discussed requiring all employers … currently do not have access to a pension plan? We address this question by using plausibly exogenous variation in pension …

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Integrating social insurance and social assistance programs for the future world of labor

Palacios, Robert J.; Robalino Aguirre, David A. - 2020

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...

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Pension rules and labour market mobility

Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2017

of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the … Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care sector, changed their pension scheme from a final salary to an average … attractive pension scheme and the number of labour market transitions is driven by self-selection of workers into jobs with an …

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Voluntary job separations and traditional versus flexible workplace saving plans : evidence from Canada

Fang, Tony; Messacar, Derek - 2019

"traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid …

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Does high involvement management make you work longer? : insights from linked survey and register data

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Ilari; … - 2024

The management practices employers deploy may affect the utility workers derive from their jobs, potentially affecting the types of jobs they enter and also their propensity to exit the workforce. Ours is the first paper to assess whether employers' use of high involvement management (HIM)...

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When the market drives you crazy : stock market returns and fatal car accidents

Guilietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...

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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk-taking among children, teenagers, and college students : evidence from Jeopardy!

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2017

Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10-12), 310 teenagers (aged 13-17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We...

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Gender match and the gender gap in venture capital financing: evidence from shark tank

Jetter, Michael; Stockley, Kieran - 2021

Although the gender gap in entrepreneurs' success rates to secure funding is staggering, we know little about its causes. This is because observing both sides of investor-entrepreneur interactions (especially for unsuccessful pitches) is difficult in reality, and the associated extraordinary...

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Mind, body, bubble! : psychological and biophysical dimensions of behavior in experimental asset markets

Butler, David J.; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2018

Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly understood. Experimental methods can isolate systematic deviations from an asset's fundamental value in a...

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