Gary S. Fields

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the distributional properties of poverty measures which are discontinuous at the poverty line, and showed that among all the additive poverty measures, only those measures with some discontinuous jump at poverty line are such that it is optimal to allocate a given antipoverty budget either to the richest of the poor, or to the poorest of the rich, or both.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present models of wages and employment in the formal sector, the informal sector, and the linkages between the two respectively, and show the contributions that these models make to understanding and policy analysis in labor markets.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of economic factors in determining retirement behavior using a unique new data archive on more than 8,700 workers covered by 10 different pension plans and found that economic factors played an important role in the decision-making process.

TL;DR: In the newly industrializing economies (NIEs) of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan (China), the entire working population has benefited from labor market institutions.

TL;DR: This article examined how the structure of earnings and pension opportunities affects retirement behavior and concluded that people with higher base incomes retire earlier and those who have more to gain by postponing retirement, retire later.