Design and pricing of private long‐term care insurance: An Australian analysis
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Private long‐term care insurance (LTCI) is unavailable in many countries, including Australia, where individuals rely on government support and retirement savings for aged care. This study explores the design and pricing of private LTCI products covering out‐of‐pocket costs, using a model of chronic illness and disability in Australia.
Kyu Park, Michael Sherris
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Are Firms Ready for Workforce Ageing? Evidence From Small‐Medium Sized Firms in Italy
LABOUR, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate age‐related human resource management (AR‐HRM) practices within SME in Italy. Using firm‐level survey data with information on age‐related attitudes and practices, we analyze the determinants of age management and outplacement practices, along with the role of collective bargaining.
Claudio Lucifora, Marco Piotti
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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Tackling Poverty Across the United Kingdom. Devolution, Difference and Discourse
IPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The UK welfare state is often considered as being highly centralised, yet the design and administration of UK social security involves significant spatial variations in law, policy, and practice. As such, where you live in the UK can affect the value of benefits and cash transfers you are entitled to, as well as how you experience benefit ...
Ruth Patrick +3 more
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Remote4All: Voicing the Lived Experiences of Disabled and/or Neurodivergent Remote Workers
New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disabled and/or neurodivergent people form 20% of the UK working population but their experience of remote working has been overlooked in research and practice. This research gave a voice to this community of workers to express their lived experience about how remote working can help to support their specific needs.
Christine Grant +3 more
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Pension Systems (Un)sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties.
Burkhard Heer +2 more
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Oral Frailty and Its Components
Oral Diseases, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives Oral frailty, an intermediate stage between healthy and declined oral function, involves impairments such as tooth loss and chewing difficulty. Socioeconomic conditions may influence oral frailty risk. This study examined the socioeconomic inequalities in oral frailty and its components among older adults in Japan.
Duc Sy Minh Ho +4 more
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Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle +2 more
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Psychiatrists' awareness of the cost of medication, rates of social disability pension, and their attitudes regarding knowledge of treatment costs. [PDF]
Isr J Health Policy Res, 2022 Lurie I, Maree S, Mendlovic S, Shefet D.
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Educational and gender disparities in work, retirement, and disability-pension expectancies: a cross-country analysis of Italy and Finland. [PDF]
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc SciMoretti M +4 more
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