Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise -- 1. Disability Insurance Incentives and the Retirement Decision: Evidence from the United States - Courtney Coile -- 2. Effect of Pensions and Disability Benefits on Retirement in the...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RETIREMENT INCENTIVES IN THE PUBLIC PENSION SYSTEM -- III. LABOR PARTICIPATION AND TAX AND BENEFIT SYSTEMS IN SLOVENIA -- IV. CONCLUSION -- References -- APPENDIX I. PUBLIC PENSIONS SYSTEM PARAMETERS -- APPENDIX II. LIFE EXPECTANCY -- APPENDIX III....

Joblessness is the root cause of the global unrest threatening American security. Fostering entrepreneurship is the remedy. The combined weight of American diplomacy and military power cannot end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of the world, Steven Koltai...

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages...

Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgement -- Contributors -- Foreword: Situating the role of information in the messy and complex context of the workplace -- 1 Work and information in modern society: a changing workplace -- Economic changes and information innovation...

This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.

While the consensus in the literature is that the labor supply of married women is more responsive than that of married men, there are indications that this gap is narrowing. Our estimations of a structural discrete choice labor supply model using repeated cross-sectional data confirms this...

We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...