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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
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Heavy work and disability pension – a long term follow-up of Swedish construction workers
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2014 OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to investigate the occurrence of disability pensions over time among workers with physically demanding jobs.
Bengt Järvholm +5 more
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Disability pensions and social security reform : analysis of the Latin American experience [PDF]
This paper describes the disability pension arrangements prevailing in ten Latin American countries that reformed their pension systems. The analysis is limited to the topic of disability pensions, without attempting to evaluate other critical aspects ...
Demarco, Gustavo, Grushka, Carlos O.
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Family Resources Survey: United Kingdom 2010/11 [PDF]
, 2012 The Family Resources Survey collects information on the incomes and circumstances of private households in the United Kingdom. It has been running since October 1992.
Clay, Simon +4 more
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Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Retirement age expectations and preferences are shaped by individual, social, and government policy influences. Our paper reviews major policy changes in the Australian Retirement Income System over the past two decades and documents changes in Australian workers' expected and preferred retirement age. Research Findings/
Paul Gerrans +2 more
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
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Health and Early Retirement: Evidence from French Data for individuals [PDF]
Health status during the working life plays a major role in the retirement decision. Significant links between professional paths, retirement age and retirement conditions (disability pension, inability pension, reduced-rate pension, or full rate by age)
Karine Briard, Thomas Barnay
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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BMC Public Health, 2009 Background A number of previous studies have investigated various predictors for being granted a disability pension. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of sick-leave track record as a predictor of being granted a disability pension in a large
Rosengren Annika +6 more
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Determinants of disability pension insidence
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 1995 The study looked at the incidence of disability pensions among Finnish manual workers aged 40-59 in the years 1972-1985. The material consisted of individual level files combining census data with data on pensions and causes of death. Background factors influencing the incidence of pensions were investigated by comparing the tendency to seek and retire
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