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The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security systems isn't just financial. This study indicates that these systems may have exerted adverse effects on key demographic factors, private savings, and long-term growth rates. Through a comprehensive endogenous-growth model where...
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We consider a neoclassical interpretation of Germany and Japan's rapid postwar growth that relies on a catch … and investment, we are able to capture many of the key empirical properties of Germany and Japan's postwar transitions …
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This paper examines how sales force impact competition and equilibrium prices in the context of a privatized pension market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico's privatized social security system, where fund managers...
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The share of elderly widows living alone rose from 18 percent in 1940 to 62 percent in 1990, while the share living with adult children declined from 59 percent to 20 percent. This study analyzes the causes of this change and finds that income growth, in particular increased Social Security...
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This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...
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and low growth rate economies. Here, more than forty percent of the growth differential is due to the efficiency effect …
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for missing credit and insurance markets. The resulting tradeoffs for growth and efficiency are explored, both … to higher income growth than taxes and transfers, but at the cost of lower insurance. Overall efficiency is assessed … welfare function, does not reward equality per se. Simulations using empirical parameter estimates show that the efficiency …
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Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …
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We explore two issues triggered by the crisis. First, in most advanced countries, output remains far below the pre-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a breakdown of the relation between inflation and...
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Group-of-Five (G-5) countries: France, West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United states. It is assumed that all … efficiency equivalent units of outputs and inputs. The measured quantities of outputs and inputs of each country may be converted … into efficiency-equivalent quantities of outputs and inputs by the multiplication of country and commodity-specific and …
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