taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth … Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension … compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions …

Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband … died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the … understood. Using a new database compiled from widows' pension files, I estimate the effect of the pension on the hazard rate of …

Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …

women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and services. We find that beauty raises women's earnings (and to a lesser extent …

Japanese public pension benefits, which were distributed quarterly through February 1990 and every other month since …

We use data from a natural experiment in which retirement benefits were reduced by congressional legislation and later ….S. military. We find that the generosity of retirement benefits is significantly correlated with the decision to remain in service … until members qualify for benefits. The estimated effect of a 20 percent reduction in the generosity of retirement benefits …

We calculate increases in contributions required to achieve full funding of state and local pension systems in the U …

Studies examining pension distribution choices have found that the tendency of private-sector workers is to select lump … distribution from the pension system within one year of separation. Furthermore, the evidence suggests many separating workers …, particularly those with short tenure, may be forgoing important benefits due to lack of knowledge, understanding, or accessibility …

Public sector defined benefit pension plans are based on final earnings. As such, these plans are back-loaded; those … with long careers receive substantial benefits and those who leave early receive little. The analysis consists of three … complete reliance on delayed vesting and final earnings plans results in minimal benefits for most short-service public …