We examine the possible consequences of the increasing shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution arrangements for private pensions.
1 April 2005
We examine the effects of different forms of feedback information on the performance of markets that suffer from moral hazard problems due to sequential exchange.
1 April 2005
This paper investigates the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps.
1 April 2005
In this paper we use the new Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to look at ethnic differences in outcomes of children at birth.
1 April 2005
In this report we estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.
31 March 2005
30 March 2005
With extraordinarily good timing, the Economics section of the British Association, meeting in Exeter in September 2004, chose to look at pension reform.
30 March 2005
This paper examines the effect of reforms to the public pension programme in the United Kingdom on the state retirement incomes of current generations of pensioners and on the prospective state incomes of future generations of pensioners.
30 March 2005
We develop a simulation model of household behaviour in which both the consumption/saving and labour/leisure choices are endogenous.
30 March 2005
This paper discusses how the governance of public and private pensions is key to making such promises credible.
30 March 2005
This paper looks at the policy debate surrounding private pensions and retirement patterns in the UK.
30 March 2005
This Commentary provides an update on trends in poverty and inequality in Great Britain for 2005.
30 March 2005
Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector.
29 March 2005
Last week's budget was probably the last before the next general election.
25 March 2005
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18 March 2005
This paper looks at the policy debate surrounding private pensions and retirement patterns in the UK.
18 March 2005