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Bidding Strategies for Simultaneous Ascending Auctions
(2008-01-23)
Simultaneous ascending auctions present agents with various
strategic problems, depending on preference structure. As long as
bids represent non-repudiable offers, submitting non-contingent bids
to separate auctions ...
Exploring bidding strategies for market-based scheduling
(2003-06)
A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple time slots of the schedulable resource, ...
Why Has Unemployment Risen in the new South Africa?
(2007-09-11)
We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We describe the likely causes of this increase and analyze whether the increase in unemployment is due to structural changes in the economy ...
Labor supply responses to adverse shocks under credit constraints: evidence from Bukidnon, Philippines
(UP School of Economics and the Philippine Economic Society, 2008-12)
The ability of households to insure consumption from adverse shocks is an important aspect of vulnerability to poverty. How is consumption insurance achieved in a low-income setting where formal credit and insurance markets ...
Trends in the Labor Force Participation of Married Women
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
This study seeks to quantify determinants, and costs, of the labor—force participation of married women. We use demographic and earnings data from the Health and Retirement
Study. The earnings data constitute an unusually ...
The Economic Consequences of Widowhood
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2002-04)
We analyzed the economic consequences of a husband’s death using events that occurred between the first two waves of the HRS and AHEAD studies. We compared poverty transitions against published results from Social ...
Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2001-06)
Objectives: Little is known regarding the amount of time spent by unpaid caregivers providing help to elderly individuals for disabilities associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). We sought to obtain nationally representative ...
Managing the Risk of Life
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
This study analyzes the role of individual’s and spouse’s survival expectations and knowledge about Social Security rules on the expected Social Security claiming age, taking into account the various incentives single and ...
Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
After dropping for a century, the average retirement age for U.S. males seems to have
leveled off in recent decades. An important question is whether as future improvements
in technology cause wages to rise, desired ...