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Retirement patterns during the Swedish pension fund
Glans, Erik - 2008
The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits than the former system. I study whether the reform has...
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Swedish Pension Reforms in the 1990s
Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2002
Many Western countries with an aging population consider reforms of their pay-as-you-go pension systems. In Sweden a new pension system has already been decided and implemented. This paper gives a brief background to the Swedish reforms in the 1990s and explains the structure of the new system.
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Feldstein's rhetoric of private retirement accounts
Avsar, Rojhat B. - 2008
The purpose of this study is to provide an alternate approach to studies of the rhetoric of policy-relevant economics. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both...
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Labor Markets in Latin America: A Supply-Side Story
Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1998
This paper shows that the factors affecting labor supply have been key determinants of the changes in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327033
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Layoff Tax and the Employment of the Elderly
Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294877
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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009
objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273947
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EU employment dynamics: The pandemic years and beyond
Jestl, Stefan; Stehrer, Robert - 2021
difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565947
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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
Şahin, Afşin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, M. Hakan - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500246
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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007
India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
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Welfare effects of pension finance reform
Brunner, Johann K. - 2002
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