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Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Andersen, Asbjørn Goul; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2019
Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types is affected by local labor demand conditions. Local labor demand is identified by means of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141304
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The Political Economy of Labour Market Policies in Western and Eastern European Countries
van Vliet, Olaf - 2012
Discussions on how to organize European labour markets are one of the key public policy issues of today. In European policy debates, the most important concepts seem to be ‘flexicurity' and the ‘transitional labour market.' In this report we examine the cross-country variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100066
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First Year of the Mandatory Pension Arrangement in Israel : Compliance with the Arrangement as an Indicator for Its Potential Implications for Labor Supply
Brender, Adi - 2012
Since 2008, Israel is gradually implementing a universal mandatory pension arrangement. The arrangement is found to have had a significant effect: about half of the employees that did not contribute to a pension arrangement in 2007, and continued working in 2008, began to save. In comparison,...
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The Future of 401(K) Plan Fees
Forman, Jonathan Barry - 2008
There were 47 million participants in 401(k) plans in 2005, up from just 8 million in the 1980s. More than 90 percent of 401(k) plan participants can choose how to invest their accounts, and nearly half invest in stock funds. That's a lot of money and a lot of investors. At bottom, the...
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The California Rule and Its Potential Abolition
Shepard, Scott Andrew - 2018
California faces a significant pension-funding crisis. It has increased government-worker pensionbenefits repeatedly since the 1980s. Meanwhile, a California Supreme Court doctrine—theCalifornia Rule—has been understood to forbid cutting benefits for any currently employedgovernment workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909334
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Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Andersen, Asbjørn - 2019
Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types is affected by local labor demand conditions. Local labor demand is identified by means of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861284
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School of Autocracy : Pensions and Labour Reforms of the First Putin Administration
Grigoriev, Ivan - 2015
The early 2000s marked a surge in uncertainty in Russian politics caused by the succession crisis and the profound … political turnover it triggered. This uncertainty could resolve in a number of ways, each leading to a different political … development. We trace the actual way out of this uncertainty and suggest that the major factor to condition the further regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027161
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Комплексен модел за социална адаптация на военнослужещите, освободени от военна служба (Complex Model of Social Adaptation of Servicemen, Discharged from Military Service)...
Terziev, Venelin - 2018
Bulgarian Abstract:</B> Динамичните промени в средата на сигурност, поставят на сериозни изпитания военнослужещите, освободени по една или друга причина от военна служба и...
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A Lost Generation but Renewed Hope : Oregon's Pension Crisis and the Road to Reform
Shepard, Scott Andrew - 2018
Like a number of other states, Oregon has been hampered in its pension reform efforts since 1996 by its state supreme court's embrace of the “California Rule,” a doctrine arising, in Oregon's case, from a misunderstanding of federal Contract Clause precedent. Under the misreading, states...
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The Welfare and Labor Market Effects of Mandatory Pension Savings : Evidence from the Israeli Case
Brender, Adi - 2021
Many studies show that workers make poor decisions about pension savings. Policy responses to these failures include social security retirement arrangements, tax benefits for pension savings and, in some countries, also mandatory private savings towards retirement. This study examines the...
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