Author : Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Ability, Influence of age on
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Author : John Haltiwanger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226314596
Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the labor market. Labor Statistics Measurement Issues helps to fill this gap by exploring key theoretical and practical issues in the measurement of employment, wages, and workplace practices. Some of the chapters in this volume explore the conceptual issues of what is needed, what is known, or what can be learned from existing data, and what needs have not been met by available data sources. Others make innovative uses of existing data to analyze these topics. Also included are papers examining how answers to important questions are affected by alternative measures used and how these can be reconciled. This important and useful book will find a large audience among labor economists and consumers of labor statistics.
Author : David E. Bloom
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000812774
Ageing populations pose some of the foremost global challenges of this century. Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing. Structured in seven parts, the volume addresses a broad range of themes, including health economics, labour economics, pensions and social security, generational accounting, wealth inequality and regional perspectives. Each chapter combines a succinct overview of the state of current research with a sketch of a promising future research agenda. This Handbook will be an essential resource for advanced students, researchers and policymakers looking at the economics of ageing across the disciplines of economics, demography, public policy, public health and beyond. Chapter 37 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309056276
The retirement income security of older Americans and the cost of providing that security are increasingly the subject of major debate. This volume assesses what we know and recommends what we need to know to estimate the short- and long-term effects of policy alternatives. It details gaps in data and research and evaluates possible models to estimate the impact of policy changes that could affect retirement income from Social Security, pensions, personal savings, and other sources.
Author : George A. Akerlof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1986-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521312844
The contributors explore the reasons why involuntary unemployment happens when supply equals demand.
Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226675664
Exploding the myth that the United States is on the brink of gerontological disaster, this provocative and revealing book paints a surprisingly rich and unsentimental portrait of the millions of elderly people in the U.S., and offers fresh insight into a wide range of social and political issues relating to the elderly, including health care, crime, social security, and discrimination.
Author : Panel on Retirement Income Modeling
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309589533
This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies. As the U.S. population ages, there is increasing uncertainty about the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare systems and the adequacy of private pensions to provide for people's retirement needs. The volume covers such critical behaviors as workers' decisions to retire, people's choices of saving over consumption, and employers' decisions about hiring older workers and providing pension and health care benefits. Also covered are trends in mortality, health status, and health care costs that are key to projecting the likely costs and effects of alternative retirement income security policies and a strategy for combining data and research knowledge into a policy modeling framework.
Author : C.T. (Terry) Gillin
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550288834
Mandatory retirement has become a major social and political issue in Canada. In this book expert authors explore the key themes that lie at the heart of the debate on this subject.
Author : Solomon W. Polachek
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780762306930
How do technology, public works projects, mental health, race, gender, mobility, retirement benefits, and macroeconomic policies affect worker well-being? This volume contains fourteen original chapters utilizing the latest econometric techniques to answer this question. The findings include the following: technology gains explain over half the decline in U.S. unemployment and over two-thirds the reduction in U.S. inflation; universal health coverage would reduce U.S. labor force participation by 3.3 per cent; blacks respond to regional rather than national changes in schooling rates of return, perhaps implying a more local labor market for blacks than whites; employee motivation enhances labor force participation, on-the-job training, job satisfaction and earnings; male and female promotion and quit rates are comparable once one controls for individual and job characteristics; public works programs designed to increase a worker's skills do not always increase reemployment; and, U.S. pension wealth increased about 20 per cent - 25 per cent over the last two decades.
Author : Pierre Cahuc
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262325543
The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This landmark graduate-level text combines depth and breadth of coverage with recent, cutting-edge work in all the major areas of modern labor economics. Its command of the literature and its coverage of the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments make it also a valuable resource for practicing labor economists. This second edition has been substantially updated and augmented. It incorporates examples drawn from many countries, and it presents empirical methods using contributions that have proved to be milestones in labor economics. The data and codes of these research publications, as well as numerous tables and figures describing the functioning of labor markets, are all available on a dedicated website (www.labor-economics.org), along with slides that can be used as course aids and a discussion forum. This edition devotes more space to the analysis of public policy and the levers available to policy makers, with new chapters on such topics as discrimination, globalization, income redistribution, employment protection, and the minimum wage or labor market programs for the unemployed. Theories are explained on the basis of the simplest possible models, which are in turn related to empirical results. Mathematical appendixes provide a toolkit for understanding the models.
