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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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Global finance and the German model: German corporations, market incentives, and the management of employer-sponsored pension institutions

Clark, Gordon L.; Mansfield, Daniel; Tickell, Adam - 2002

Where there was a settled political geography of state power and responsibilities, the remarkable growth of global finance has put enormous pressure on national economic, political and social institutions. Furthermore, the looming crisis facing many continental European social security systems...

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Why convention dominates pension fund trustee investment decision-making

Clark, Gordon L. - 1998

Pension funds may be one of the few avenues now open for financingnew urban infrastructure and development projects. But convention dominates pension fund trustees' investment decisions, so it is difficult to see how the ambitions of advocates of pension fund investment can be squared with...

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Pension funds and urban investment: four models of financial intermediation

Clark, Gordon L. - 1997

It has been often suggested that public and private pension funds should be, and could be, mobilised to invest in urban infrastructure, housing, and community development. In fact, given the apparent decline in government funding of such areas of concern, it has been suggested that pension funds...

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The anatomy of corruption: the practice of pension fund trustee decision-making

Clark, Gordon L. - 1998

The model of pension plan trustee decisionmaking introduced in a previous paper is extended here emphasising aspects of the social psychology of investment decisionmaking, including collegiality and the necessity of justification. To give the analysis structure, I begin with the framing logic of...

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The functional and spatial structure of the investment management industry

Clark, Gordon L. - 2000

Most pension funds use an extensive array of service providers to administer and manage their financial assets. In this paper, I sketch a 'map' of the functional structure of service provision and the apparent spatial configuration of those elements. Theoretically, the paper could be thought...

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The private provision of urban infrastructure: financial intermediation through long term contracts

Clark, Gordon L.; Evans, John - 1998

This paper deals with pension fund investment in urban infrastructure projects . It is suggested that the potential returns (and risks) with such projects are significantly greater than comparable fixed-income products though they have long gestation periods like gilt-edged securities. Our...

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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF PENSIONS FOR THE LABOR MARKET

Hill, Tomeka - 2006

Empirical research of pensions and its role in the labor market has been limiting and has led to inconclusive and … sometimes contradictory results. What is needed to have a better understanding of the role of pensions is better data that are … investigating the role of pensions on firm productivity. This dissertation comprises of two chapters. Each chapter is discussed …

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Reintroducing Intergenerational Equilibrium: Key Concepts behind the New Polish Pension System

Góra, Marek - 2003

Poland adopted a new pension system in 1999. This new pension system allows Poland to reduce pension expenditure (as a percent of GDP), instead of increasing it – as is projected for the majority of other OECD countries. This paper presents the conceptual background of the new system design....

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Labor force participation patterns and earnings of women clerical workers / BEBR No. 532

Ferber, Marianne A. - 2011

Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34).

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