Mike Orszag

Towers Watson

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Mike Orszag is head of global research services at Towers Watson, the global actuarial consulting firm. He joined Watson Wyatt in 2001 and was head of research prior to the merger with Towers Perrin in 2010.

Orszag has research interests in pensions, personnel economics, risk management and insurance. Orszag is a founding editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (published by Cambridge University Press in cooperation with the OECD) and a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income (Oxford University Press, 2005). Orszag's current research is focused on new approaches to decision-making under uncertainty and labour issues connected with multinationals.

Orszag has started and managed commercial research groups in five locations including India, China and Uruguay.

He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in economics and an AB from Princeton University in economics.

Mike Orszag wasn an IZA Research Fellow from July 2000 until October 2016.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2105
Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Alessio J. G. Brown, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 587-604
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1383
Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
Mirko Cardinale, Mike Orszag
published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 309-343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 816
The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries
Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, Mike Orszag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 538
The Pension Transfer Program
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 537
Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 536
Pension Taxes versus Early Retirement Rights
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 533
Assessing Welfare Accounts
Stefan Fölster, Robert Gidehag, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 532
From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 529
Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 631-641
IZA Discussion Paper No. 41
Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 1998, 5(2), 303-343
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