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- Evaluating the Initial Impact of Eliminating the Retirement Earnings Test
- How did workers aged 65-69 respond to the removal of the retirement earnings test in 2000? Using Social Security administrative data matched with data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the author finds that the higher earners in this group increased their earnings, while the lower earners did...
- White papers
- An Important Message: Get People Connected
- For those of us who write about business, every once in a while, a book or an article comes along that seems so simple on some levels yet communicates great wisdom. "The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage" is one such work. Here's a link to the download. The author is Michael Lee...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Work-Consumption Preferences, Cyclical Driving Forces, And Unemployment Volatility
- The author develops a model that accounts for the movements of unemployment in the U.S. over the past few years. The model pays close attention to evidence about preferences for work and consumption. It attributes bilateral efficiency to employment relations, with respect to the formation and continuation of matches and...
- White papers 2006-08-22
- Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take Up
- The weak response by the uninsured to policy initiatives encouraging voluntary enrollment in health insurance has raised concerns regarding the extent to which the uninsured value health insurance. To address this issue, data is used from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to examine the association between health insurance preferences...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
- The authors' construct and test a new model of employer-provided health insurance provision in the presence of adverse selection in the health insurance market. In their model, employers cannot observe the health of their employees, but can decide whether to offer insurance. Employees sort themselves among employers who do and...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Coping With Loads Of To-Do's
- The author believes that stress is the root of many illnesses. He also thinks that massage therapy should not be considered a special treat, but preventative health care. Moreover, he subscribe to the ideas of taking micro breaks (one minute of stretching in an hour really does do the body...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Pension Accounting and Corporate Earnings: The World According to GAAP
- The underlying premise of the study presented in this paper is that current pension plan accounting has two important negative effects. First, it distorts the measurement of earnings and net worth in the short run, as well as the pattern of earnings over future periods. Second, this distortion can send...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Pay for Performance: How Fast Is It Spreading?
- P4P (Pay-for-Performance) programs generally start with HMOs, which have greater penetration in California and Massachusetts than in the South or the Midwest. While an increasing number of pay-for-performance programs now include PPOs, it's an administrative challenge. Given that PPO patients can self-refer to any network physician, pay-for-performance sponsors have difficulty...
- White papers 2005-11-04
- Product Market Competition, Returns To Skill And Wage Inequality
- This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. The author develops a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity of profits to...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Usability Cost-Benefit Models
- There are few development organizations that have integrated usability activities as an integral part of their product development projects. One reason for this is that the benefits of better usability are not visible for the management. In this paper the author analyses the characteristics of some published usability cost-benefit models....
- White papers 2004-10-06
- The Hiring Decisions and Compensation Structures of Large Firms
- This paper investigates differences between large and small firms in new hires' ages and in compensation structures. An analysis of data from the Benefits Supplement to the Current Population Survey CPS shows that large firms hired younger workers than small firms and awarded starting wages that discriminated less between young...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Performance Evaluation And Management
- The following white paper revolves around the three principles of management—Measure, Manage and Magnify. The author suggests that it is imperative to define proportionate value of the project’s Key Value Areas and create at least one project objective that has weighting and measuring standards of performance. The author works on...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Twenty Myths About Single-Payer Health Insurance: International Evidence on the Effects of National Health Insurance in Countries Around the World
- The authors' survey of national health insurance in countries around the world provides convincing evidence that government control of health care usually makes citizens worse off. When health care is made free at the point of consumption, rationing by waiting is inevitable. Government control of the health care system makes...
- White papers 2002-07-11
- Workers' Compensation Rate Regulation: How Price Controls Increase Costs
- In the 1980s, regulation constrained workers' compensation insurance premiums in the face of rapid growth in loss costs. The authors' develop and test the hypothesis that rate suppression exacerbates loss growth, leading to higher losses and premiums. The empirical analysis using rating class data for eight states for the period...
- White papers 2001-04-18
- HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean: Economic Issues-Impact and Investment Response
- The paper presents updated information on the estimated impact of HIV/AIDS on the economies of the Caribbean. The author uses the output of a 1997 study on the economic impact of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago as the starting point and updates the projections for these two countries...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Banks and Mutual Funds
- Mutual funds are the fastest-growing segment of the financial-services industry. The author traces the growth of mutual funds and describes the major functionaries employed by a mutual fund, including banks and bank holding companies. The study also examines how banks have entered the distribution channel by selling mutual funds to...
- White papers 1996-02-01
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- Genetic Trait Boosts AIDS Risks in Blacks
- New research suggests that people of African descent are much more likely to have a genetic trait that makes them more susceptible to infection with the HIV virus. which also provides protection against a form of malaria -- might account for 11 percent of the HIV cases in Africa, the...
- Articles 2008-07-16
- Popular Orthopedics Medical Handbook Now Available in Portuguese
- NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to high demand in Brazil, a popular medical handbook, Fracture Classifications in Clinical Practice (ISBN-10: 1846280257; ISBN-13: 978-184-628-0252), has recently been published in Portuguese by DiLivros Publishing company. Authored by Dr. Seyed Behrooz Mostofi, FRCS (Tr&Orth), the book benefits an array of...
- Articles 2008-07-15
- Law Office of David R. Chase, P.A. Files Two FINRA Arbitration Claims Against Charles Schwab & Co. Seeking Expedited Hearings for the Benefit of Two Elderly YieldPlus Fund Investors
- The Law Office of David R. Chase, P.A.(the "Firm"), headed by former Securities and Exchange CommissionProsecutor and Special Assistant United States Attorney, David R. Chase,announces that it is has filed two FINRA Financial Industry RegulatoryAuthority arbitration claims against Charles Schwab & Co. ("Schwab")seeking expedited hearings for the benefit of two...
- Articles 2008-07-15
- The principal author of the Dodd-Shelby housing bill is Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate Banking Committee
- The principal author of the Dodd-Shelby housing bill is Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate Banking Committee. Portfolio magazine has revealed that Dodd was one of two U.S. senators who benefited from Countrywide Financial's "Friends of Angelo" program named for CEO Angelo Mozilo, under which Countrywide,...
- Articles 2008-07-14
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