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Understanding the labour market for older workers : a survey
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William S. - 2009
The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (1/2% of the workforce over 65), yet staged … make little allowance for fair pension increases if retirement is deferred. While these laws have begun to change, we find … reduce older workers' hiring opportunities especially where wages are rigid. -- Mandatory retirement ; deferred pay ; age …
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Old age pensions, retirement behaviour and personal saving : a discussion of the literature
Magnussen, Knut A. - 1994
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
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Investing in our young people
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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Narratives in economics
Roos, Michael W. M.; Reccius, Matthias - 2021
There is growing awareness within the economics profession of the important role narratives play in the economy. Even though empirical approaches that try to quantify economic narratives are getting increasingly popular, there is no theory or even a universally accepted definition of economic...
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Zanjatostʹ, rabočee vremja i urovenʹ žizni : (promyšlenno-razvitye strany)
Borko, Jurij Antonovič (contributor) - 1994
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Impact of structural adjustment on sustainable rural livelihoods : a review of the literature
Ahmed, Ismail I.; Lipton, Michael - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000657120
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Regionalʹnye aspekty socialʹnych problem
Novoženova, I. S. - In: Aktual'nye problemy Evropy : naučnyj žurnal (1996), pp. 125-142
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