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Do cash transfers foster resilience? : evidence from rural Niger

Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020

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Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform : Impacts on Saving and Employment

Bosworth, Barry; Burtless, Gary - 2008

Pension reform can potentially increase saving and improve incentives for labor force participation later in life. We investigate whether these effects are likely to occur and the potential size of the effects on private and total saving and on employment past age 55. Our survey of existing...

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The impact of social safety net programs on household savings in Colombia

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...

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