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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007
characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …
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Soziale Risiken der Digitalisierung - Regulierungsbedarfe der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse
Keller, Berndt; Seifert, Hartmut - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 27 (2020) 2, pp. 227-249
-term income, medium-term further education, long-term retirement insurance. The focus is on the particularly affected groups of …
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The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile
Aninat, Cristobal; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Briones, Ignacio - 2010
This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328251
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Education and retirement: Does University education at mid-age extend working life?
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-22
To our knowledge, this paper provides the first study evaluating the effects of higher education for adults on the … education in 1992-1993. Our sample is aged 42-55 at the time of enrollment and thus aged 60-73 in 2010. We find that higher … education increases labor market survival rates when aged 61-66 by about 5 percentage points. The estimates represent relatively …
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The Effects of Schooling on Wealth Accumulation Approaching Retirement
Bingley, Paul; Martinello, Alessandro - 2017
Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal …
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The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261395
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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
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Teenage childbearing and labor market implications for women
Levine, Phillip B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...
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On the fertility transition in Africa: Income, child mortality, or education?
Mveyange, Anthony - 2015
present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418604
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Schooling Outcomes in the Philippines, 1988-2008: Impacts of Changes in Household Income and the Implementation of the Free Public Secondary Education Act (RA 6655)
Revilla, Ma. Laarni D. - 2014
In the Philippines, no assessment has been done yet on the impacts of changes in household income and the free public … secondary education act (Republic Act 6655) on the outcomes of education. Thus, this paper inquires on the impacts of these two … educational attainment level, average years of schooling, and education inequality. Using descriptive statistics and regression …
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