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Old Europe Ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes

Börsch-Supan, Axel - 2010

focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have large pay …

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Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples

Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 2021

inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different … units who respond in initial waves of the panel may drop out in subsequent waves, so that the subsample with complete data … for all waves of the panel can be less representative of the population than the original sample. Sometimes, in the hope …

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An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data : The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Fitzgerald, John M.; Gottschalk, Peter; Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021

By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced approximately 50 percent sample loss from …

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Social Security Privatization Reform and Labor Markets : The Case of Chile

Edwards, Sebastian; Edwards, Alejandra Cox - 2021

We analyze the way in which social security privatization reform affects labor market outcomes. We develop a model of the labor market where we assume that, as is the case in most emerging markets, a formal and an informal sectors coexist side by side. According to our model, a social security...

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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexib Ility

Blank, Rebecca M.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

Over the last 10 years, a variety of analysts have blamed high unemployment and stagnant economic growth in Europe on inflexible labor markets and pointed to the US as a more flexible economy, due to its less regulated labor markets and less generous social protection programs. This paper...

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Uncertainty, Redistribution, and the Labor Market

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2013

Uncertainty and its composition can affect the demand for social insurance, and thereby the labor market. This paper shows that small to medium-sized increases in uncertainty or risk aversion are enough to recommend an expansion of the safety net that would be broadly similar to the actual...

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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs Since the 1960s : Which Institutions Really Mattered?

Allard, Gayle - 2010

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market...

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Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries : Market Distortions or Efficient Institutions?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This essay reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that: 1) Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than they...

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Women,Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries

Fukui, Masao - 2018

Business cycle recoveries have slowed in recent decades. This slowdown comes entirely from female employment: as women's employment rates converged towards men's over the course of the past half-century, the growth rate of female employment slowed. But does the slowdown in the growth of female...

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Incentive Effects of Social Security Under an Uncertain Disability Option

Börsch-Supan, Axel - 2021

Incentive effects of pension systems are usually estimated under the assumption that the institutional environment provides a single optimal 'pathway' for retirement. However, many countries provide competing pathways which may include several early retirement options in addition to normal...

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