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surveys of individuals, life satisfaction in cross-section increases with age beyond retirement into advanced old age. It may … "paradox of well-being." We examine the age profile of life satisfaction of the U.S. population age 65 and older in the Health … longitudinal dimension of the HRS life satisfaction significantly declines with age and the rate of decline accelerates with age …
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. First, the aging workforce may mean an increase in the size of the firm's current deficit, defined as the difference between … the easiest way to reduce the size of the elderly workforce. But this will not help the individual firm's deficit problem … benefits and increase in the age of entitlement are likely to have the largest effects on raising the retirement age …
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We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...
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Although economic models of training decisions are framed in terms of a company's calculation of the costs and benefits of such training, empirical work has never been able to test this model directly on company behavior. This paper utilizes a unique database to analyze the determinants of the...
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We study the allocation and productivity consequences of training production line supervisors in soft skills via a randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers -- who sit above supervisors in the hierarchy -- to...
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expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to … expenditures on persons under age 65; 3) a cross-sectional increase with age in per capita health care expenditures that is …
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During the past decade, much has been said about the role that on-the-job training plays in augmenting one's stock of human capital. Up to this point, little has been done to distinguish the effect of on-the-job training from that of aging on the increase in human wealth. The reason rests...
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defined, and age. I produce 444 significant country estimates with controls, so these are ceteris paribus effects, and find … evidence of a well-being U-shape in age in one hundred and thirty-two countries, including ninety-five developing countries … estimates from developing countries gives an age minimum of 48.2 for well-being and doing the same across the 187 country …
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I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million … the world. Responses to all these unhappiness questions show a, ceteris paribus, inverted U-shape in age, with controls …Unhappiness is hill-shaped in age. There is an unhappiness curve …
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-known relationship between well-being and longevity among the elderly, particularly for those over age 70. In this paper, we analyze … several different data sets for the U.S. and provide extensive evidence on the middle age patterns, how they differ across the …
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