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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Public pensions"”.
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The politics of the welfare state in Japan : political leadership in the policy processes for social services, health care and public pensions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1987.
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PENSIONS IN THE CHINESE COMMUNITY
… the core values behind the Chinese Community pensions. Four country case studies examine the development and performance of these state pension schemes in the context of the family support system and demographic trends. They explore the sustainability of pension provisions, the adequacy of …
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The Political Economy of U.S. Public Pension Plans and Their Unfunded Liabilities
Chapter 1 applies a public choice approach to the problem of unfunded pension liabilities and adopts the methodology of Congleton and Shughart (1990) to model underfunding of state-level public pension plans using the median voter theorem, along with the theory of "capture" by special interest …
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The Effects of Government Legislation and Regulation in the 20th Century on the Evolution of Commercial Real Estate as an Investment Vehicle
… of value creation for individuals, corporations, public pensions and countries throughout history. This paper will highlight the evolution of commercial real estate as an investment vehicle in the United States throughout debatably the most crucial time period in its development, the 20th century. …
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Quantitative Insights into Pension Reform in Emerging Economies: The Case of Vietnam.
… and a government sector with Pay-As-You-Go public pensions applicable to formal workers. The benchmark model is calibrated to the Vietnamese economy, fitted to Vietnamese data as well as key demographic and macroeconomic features. Chapter 4 examines a range of policy counterfactuals that …
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Local Fiscal Sustainability within American Federalism
Unfunded public pension and Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB) liabilities impose major threats to local fiscal sustainability, which increases governments' default risk and crowds out funding for essential local services. To close the funding gaps, localities may apply a wide range of fiscal …
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Three Essays on Labour and Public Economics
… the early eligibility age (EEA) for old-age pensions, a common policy to alleviate fiscal pressure on public pension systems. While prior work has focused on short-term labor supply effects, we examine long-term impacts on economic well-being and poverty using two Canadian reforms in the …