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International factor mobility, minimum wage rates and factor-price equalization: a synthesis

Neary, J. Peter - 1985

This paper examines the behavior of a small open economy facing perfectly elastic supply curves for some of its productive factors. In particular, the paper derives some comparative statics properties of such economies, compares them with the properties of otherwise identical economies in which...

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How will ageing affect the structure of financial markets

Davis, EP - 2007

The ageing of the world population is an ineluctable process with major economicimplications. Whereas there is … structure. Ageing tends to benefit bond markets relative to equitymarkets, while depressing private saving and external balances … of ageing havewide-ranging implications for policymakers and market participants. …

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The end of the demographic dividend in Latin America: challenges for economic and social policies

Berganza, Juan Carlos; Campos, Rodolfo G.; Martínez …

Artículo de revista ; Population ageing is a major global challenge. The Latin American economies have a younger … from the adaptation of social welfare systems to population ageing. …

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Ageing, productivity and employment status

Anghel, Brindusa; Lacuesta Gabarain, Aitor

is particularly important in Spain’s current demographic context of a gradually ageing population. …

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Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution

Zhao, Kai - 2009

Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...

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Heterogeneous Ability, Life Expectancy, and Social Security : Four Essays

Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008

Though the present thesis is not intended as a monograph, its respective chapters are interrelated: The major research question is whether the German public pension system (or potentially any annuity-based pension system) causes redistribution between income groups. Especially the relationship...

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The distribution of social security transfers in the UK

Nolan, Brian - 1986

The distributional impact of different transfer programmes is one of the basic criteria on which decisions such as those on resource allocation may be based. This paper examines the spread over the UK size distribution of different transfers, using data from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES)....

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Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement - Empirical Evidence from Switzerland and Germany

Hanel, Barbara - 2010

Die Arbeit untersucht in drei unabhängigen Studien Determinanten der Renteneintrittsentscheidung. Es werden drei natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben haben und die Identifikation kausaler Effekte erlauben....

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The implementation of strategic decisions at the Social Security Commission in Namibia

Ndara, Daniel Sipopa - 2009

The study was conducted to determine the key obstacles to strategy implementation at the Social Security Commission. The objective was to establish various factors that inhibit successful strategy implementation and explore alternative approaches that could be adopted to facilitate effective...

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General equilibrium effects of an alternative social security development in Indonesia

Sudarto, Economics, Australian School of Business, UNSW - 2008

This study investigates general equilibrium effects of an alternative social security policy in Indonesia. The study aims to analyse some financial issues of the proposed policy using a dynamic CGE model. The focus is investigating possible tax scenarios to finance the proposed policy and their...

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