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The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement : Active vs. Passive Decisions

Lalive, Rafael - 2020

additional structure point identifies the fraction at 67%. An original survey of Swiss pensioners reveals that reference …

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Trusting Former Rebels : An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Bauer, Michal - 2014

The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine … social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands … of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex-soldiers …

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Sweden's Pensioners : How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride Through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2021

's deep recession in the 1990s. Instead, relatively, pensioners fared better than the working age population. On the other … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals...

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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2018

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but unlike most international...

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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment : The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Farber, Henry S. - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...

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Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes : Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations

Schwandt, Hannes - 2014

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...

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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco - 2014

The public sector employs a large share of the labor force to execute important functions (e.g. regulation and public good provision) in an environment beset by severe agency problems. Attracting workers who are motivated to serve the public interest is important to mitigate these problems. We...

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Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House : Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement

Battistin, Erich - 2014

This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring. We exploit a decade of pension reforms in Italy that mandated the grandparental generation to a working horizon longer than they would have had otherwise. We argue that the rise...

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Drawn into Violence : Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Lindo, Jason M. - 2010

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust evidence of effects on violent crimes among...

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