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Public Policy Brief No. 21
May 09, 1995
The Consolidated Assistance Program
AbstractIn this brief, Oren M. Levin-Waldman examines the structure of existing welfare programs and concludes that the current array of benefits could be synchronized and consolidated to create a new system that would provide economic incentives to work. He suggests combining elements of the earned income tax credit (EITC) and current welfare programs into one […]
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Working Paper No. 142
May 01, 1995
Industrial Change and Social Mobility
AbstractNo further information available.
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Working Paper No. 141
May 01, 1995
Financial Innovation and Risk Management
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Working Paper No. 140
May 01, 1995
The Deficiencies of the Unemployment Insurance System
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Public Policy Brief No. 20
April 08, 1995
Assessing the Constitutional Route to Federal Budget Balance
AbstractCharles J. Whalen evaluates the political and economic arguments in favor of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and concludes that, although today’s federal budget process needs reform, the balanced budget amendment is not a solution. In fact, such an amendment would divert attention from what is really needed, namely, establishing priorities and making […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 19
April 05, 1995
Cooperate to Compete
AbstractTakao Kato outlines the types of human resource management practices (HRMPs) used in Japan and the effect of these employee participation programs on employee productivity and economic competitiveness. From these findings about the effects of HRMPs on Japanese productivity, Kato draws several conclusions for the direction that American policy might take in order to raise […]
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Working Paper No. 139
April 01, 1995
On Stock Market Returns and Monetary Policy
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Working Paper No. 138
April 01, 1995
US Foreign Trade, the Budget Deficit, and Strategic Policy Problems
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Working Paper No. 137
February 01, 1995
Closing the R&D Gap
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Working Paper No. 136
February 01, 1995
Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality
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Public Policy Brief No. 18
January 04, 1995
The Economics of Aging
AbstractS. Jay Levy presents a preliminary study of the consumption patterns of retirees and nonretirees during the 1980s, paying particular attention to the distribution of the national consumer product. The consumer product increased in aggregate size during the period, but the retirees’ portion of it grew four times faster than the working households’ share. Indeed, […]
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Working Paper No. 135
January 01, 1995
Explaining Japan’s Saving Rate
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Working Paper No. 134
January 01, 1995
Aggregate Demand and Micro Behavior
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Working Paper No. 133
January 01, 1995
Monetary Policy, Stock Returns, and the Role of Credit in the Transmission of Monetary Policy
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Working Paper No. 132
January 01, 1995
Federal Budget Balance—Tonic or Toxin?
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Public Policy Brief No. 17
January 01, 1995
Narrow Banking Reconsidered
AbstractThe functional approach to reforming the financial system advocates the structural separation of the depository and lending functions of banks. As a result of such a separation, monetary and credit policy undergo a parallel separation, and government supervision and regulation of the banking industry are modified. The policy prescription developed within this approach is narrow […]
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Working Paper No. 131
December 01, 1994
The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Need to Synchronize Public Assistance Benefits
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Working Paper No. 130
December 01, 1994
Can We Afford Grandma and Grandpa?
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Working Paper No. 129
December 01, 1994
The Credibility of the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Targets
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Public Policy Brief No. 16
November 10, 1994
Infrastructure Investment for Tomorrow
AbstractThe author presents a long-term public investment proposal to preserve and upgrade the nation’s infrastructure system, offering a unique financing plan to eliminate much of the backlog of deferred maintenance that plagues America’s roads and bridges. The plan would allow states and municipalities to get out from under this burden with a one-time upgrading program, […]
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Working Paper No. 128
November 01, 1994
Should the US Government Adopt a Biennial Budget?
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Working Paper No. 126
October 01, 1994
Financial Institutions, Economic Policy, and the Dynamic Behavior of the Economy
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Working Paper No. 127
October 01, 1994
Financial Instability and the Decline(?) of Banking
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Public Policy Brief No. 15
September 09, 1994
Monetary Policy Uncovered
AbstractExperience with a variety of targets has cast doubt on the likelihood that a single variable can be found to be closely and reliably linked to future inflation; it is even less likely that such a variable, should it be found, would somehow be under the control and manipulation of the Federal Reserve. This brief […]
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