Pensions as Severance Pay

Edward P. Lazear
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Copyright 1983
ISBN 0226062813
Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System
Book: Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System
Book editors: Zvi Bodie & John B. Shoven
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Edward P. Lazear, Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System (University of Chicago Press, 1983), chap. 3, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/financial-aspects-united-states-pension-system/pensions-severance-pay.

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Pensions as Severance Pay
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Earlier claims that pensions serve as severance pay are corroborated by a new data set drawn from the 1980 Banker's...

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