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Individual Financial Decisions in Retirement Saving Plans and the Provision of Resources for Retirement

Poterba, James M. - 2000

Proposals for mandatory private saving accounts differ in the degree of investment discretion that they provide to individual savers, and in their provisions for annuitization of accumulated assets. With respect to investment choices, some argue that individuals must be prevented from investing...

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The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace : Evidence from a Survey of Employers

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2000

We examine the effects of education on financial decision-making skills by identifying an interesting source of variation in pertinent training. During the 1990s, an increasing number of individuals were exposed to programs of financial education provided by their employers. If, as some have...

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Employment Versus Wage Adjustment and the Us Dollar

Campa, José Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2000

Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime activity in specific U.S. manufacturing industries. Across two-digit industry levels of aggregation, exchange rate movements do not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on...

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