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Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The … effect towards later retirement through lower replacement levels, it also implied a lower price on leaving the labor market … measured by Social Security Wealth, defined at each hypothetical retirement age, and a variable measuring the implicit tax …
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a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise …
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accumulated for retirement. This paper addresses three important adjustments channels to dampen these detrimental effects of … ageing: investing abroad, endogenous human capital formation and increasing the retirement age. Although non of these … retirement age has strong effects. Under these adjustments maximum welfare losses of demographic change for households alive in …
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Worldwide, dependency ratios are forecast to increase dramatically in the next 50 years. A great deal of attention has been devoted to understanding the changes in fiscal policies that must' take place to accommodate these changes. In contrast, less effort has been concentrated on studying the...
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to the young is therefore a cornerstone of productivity growth. We study this process in a model in which the old sell …
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Our model of growth departs from both the Malthusian and neoclassical approaches by including investments in human …. Multiple steady states mean that history and luck are critical determinants of a country's growth experience …
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Using newly available data, we document that internal migrants do not enjoy the same access to local public goods and services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to quantify the impact of the Hukou system on urban fiscal...
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, where immigration, population, human and physical capital formation, and economic growth are endogenous variables. We go …
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in median wage growth (and a slowdown in aggregate labor productivity), and (vi) a rise in consumption inequality that is …
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