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Financial Literacy Amongst Young People : When Does the Gender Gap Begin?

Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert - 2022

Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique, this paper contributes to knowledge on gender-gaps in financial literacy (FL) via a study of teenagers, emerging adults and young adults. The analysis...

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Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effectsin Employee Savings Behavior

Card, David; Ransom, Michael R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded bya combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee …

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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform : Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges

Holzmann, Robert - 2012

Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide financial crisis and the adjustment to an uncertain “new normal” will make future pension systems...

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Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

Card, David E. - 2007

. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded by a combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776339

Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

Nikolov, Plamen - 2020

Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...

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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Ncube, Mthuli - 2014

With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …

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Hearing Loss and Disability Exit:Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies

Christensen, Vibeke T.; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measuredhearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing losson receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing...

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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitionsto Employment and Early Retirement for OlderWorkers in Four European Countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on itseffect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the EuropeanCommunity Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariatecompeting-risks hazard model is...

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Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers

Blau, David; Shvydko, Tetyana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The labor market is often asserted to be characterized by rigidities that make it difficult forolder workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. An importantsource of rigidity is restrictions on hours of work imposed by firms that use team productionor face high fixed...

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Working Hours Flexibility andOlder Workers' Labor Supply

Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect onolder workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel datafor the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employedmale workers can...

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