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The US healthcare system is experiencing a funding shortfall that constrains efforts to provide healthcare to our citizens. Patients are no longer sure they will receive adequate healthcare during their senior years. One solution is to create an annuity at birth for each individual. This annuity...
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The US healthcare system is experiencing a funding shortfall that constrains efforts to provide healthcare to our citizens. Patients are no longer sure they will receive adequate healthcare during their senior years. One solution is to create an annuity at birth for each individual. This annuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563993
Since the US voters elected Barack Obama in 2008 – the first African American President of the United States of America – we witness continual attacks on this first black president. The attacks by the Tea Party have been widely broadcast by those parts of the US media most sympathetic to...
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purchase, amount spent on travel and gender. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research ideas are …
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child-caring phase of life; and the prevailing tendency to think of end of working life and retirement as gender-neutral or … forms of working as key to encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement. This article argues that there has been a … remarkable lack of attention paid to the role of gender in extending working lives and contends that this gap has arisen because …
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Demographic research has documented the age-graded risk of returning to work after a period of retirement; few studies … explored the age-graded risk of re-retiring after reentry. This study uses the 1992–2008 Health and Retirement Study to first … full retirement. Second, this study documents the age-graded duration of reemployment, and the age-graded risk of re …
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of several policies that seek to address job quality, including universal health insurance, a universal retirement system … (over and above Social Security), a large increase in college attainment, a large increase in unionization, and gender pay …
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In this paper we empirically analyse the impact of retirement benefits on consumption and personal saving in South … show that the introduction of retirement programs crowds out discretionary household saving and consumption of contributors … decline in the national pool of savings. However, taxes on retirement benefits affect the discounted value thereof and any …
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Government budgetary pressures and demographic trends have made retirement income policy a priority in developed … payments for the purposes of retirement savings addresses this option. This system poses particular difficulties for women who … participation and retirement outcomes incorporate a gendered approach and focus on the “baby boomer” cohort, the results highlight …
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This study uses the AHEAD survey to examine the effects of increasing the Social Security retirement age in the United … gender with interaction terms indicate that race/ethnicity is only marginally important in these decisions after controlling … full Social Security retirement age may have disproportionate negative effects on elderly members of minority groups in the …
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