Aei press jan 1981 (9 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Social Security Amendments of 1972 capped nearly four decades of continuous expansion and benefit increases by boosting benefits a generous 20 percent and indexing benefits to inflation beginning in 1975. At the time, the social security trust fund balances were considered sufficient to absorb any temporary deficit caused by adverse conditions, while projections based on robust fertility rates and a stable and growing economy showed large long-run actuarial surpluses. Since 1973, social security financing has not been viewed through such rose-colored glasses. Annual reports of the trustees of the social security system began projecting long-run deficits based on lower long-run fertility rates and higher rates of inflation and unemployment than were assumed previously. An indexing flaw in the 1972 amendments was detected in 1974 which, until modified by the 1977 amendments, added substantially to projected long-run deficits of the program. Also in the mid-1970s, high rates of unemployment and inflation, coupled with declining growth rates of real wages, precipitated a rapid decline in trust fund balances. In 1977, Congress responded to the short-run financial crisis by increasing payroll taxes, but it largely ignored the long-run financing issue.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Minimum Wages: Measures and Industry Effects by John M. Peterson deals with the adverse effects of minimum wages on employment by industry. By means of an improved measure, the author shows greater adverse effects than have been indicated by previous studies. According to this study, the conventional measure of the minimum wage is distorted by a feedback of effects and leads to underestimation of elasticity, the economist's measure of disemployment effects. The author proposes a new measure, the relative minimum-wage impact.While most recent studies have focused on effects on different types of workers, this study presents empirical evidence on the effects on industries, showing that the new measure works better than the old one. With the modest minimum-wage levels historically imposed, the economy-wide disemployment effects are barely discernible. When broken down by industry, however, the employment losses show up more clearly for low-wage categories, especially in retail trade. Within the high-wage manufacturing division, adverse employment effects also occur in the six lowest-wage industry groups, in both the North and the South. …

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In his preinaugural visit with President Lopez Portillo of Mexico, President Ronald Reagan demonstrated his intention to improve and strengthen relations between Mexico and the United States. In this regard, President Reagan is not unlike President Jimmy Carter and other presidents before him. Whether President Reagan will succeed, only time will tell.As earlier presidents have found-in spite of the best of intentions-President Reagan's task is not an easy one. And as the papers presented in this volume indicate, the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic linkages between Mexico and the United States are too numerous to count. The difficult bilateral policy issues confronting both governments reflect the complex and often amorphous nature of those linkages.The papers assembled in this volume represent a continuing effort by the American Enterprise Institute to bring to the attention of US policymakers a range of perspectives on the more critical issues concerning US-Mexican relations. Some of the papers are written by scholars, some by present and former government officials, and some by individuals whose daily lives are directly involved in some aspect of US-Mexican relations. Some of the papers are written from a national perspective-others from a regional perspective. Some are focused on the past, others on the present. All of them, however, are informative and interesting.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Gateway: U.S. Immigration Issues and Policies, edited by Barry R. Chiswick, addresses the importance of immigration to a wide range of US economic and social issues, as well as relations with other countries. Since the Dillingham Commission report in 1911, there has been little systematic research on immigration issues and policies. This volume comprises the edited proceedings of a conference organized to provide substantive research on which to base public policy. It was sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. The volume consists of the following parts:- Part One: The Supply and Demand for Immigrants, with papers by David M. Reimers, Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell, and Jagdish N. Bhagwati- Part Two: The Progress of Immigrants, with papers by Barry R. Chiswick, Andrew M. Greeley, and Walter Fogel- Part Three: The Economic Impact of Immigrants, with papers by Jeffrey G. Williamson, Barry R. Chiswick, and Julian L. Simon- Part Four: Alternative Immigration Policies, with papers by Larry C. Morgan and Bruce L. Gardner and Robert S. GoldfarbEach part also contains commentaries and discussion of the papers. …

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