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Reducing Humanitarian Migrants' Welfare Dependency through Language Support: Evidence from Australia's Adult Migrant English Program

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
Humanitarian migrants are among the most vulnerable migrant groups, often facing significant integration challenges, particularly language barriers. In response, many developed countries have introduced language programs to support their settlement. This study uses an event study (staggered difference‐in‐differences) approach and data from Australia's ...
Bowen Wang, Tunye Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Private Participation on Disability Costs: Evidence from Chile [PDF]

open access: yes
Social security systems in many countries face problems of high and escalating disability costs. This paper analyzes how disability costs have been controlled in Chile.
Alejandra CoxEdwards   +2 more
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Does Decreasing the Generosity of Payments to Single Parents Have Employment and Earnings Effects? Evidence from Australian Administrative Data*

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
We examine the impact of two changes to Australia's Parenting Payment Single (PPS) program, a welfare payment for low‐income single mothers. One change lowered the age of the youngest child cut off for program eligibility, forcing new welfare entrants onto the less generous Newstart (unemployment) payment.
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
wiley   +1 more source

Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
wiley   +1 more source

Late careers and career exits in Norway [PDF]

open access: yes
We used matched employer-employee data for the period 1992-1997 to analyse the transition from work to early retirement in Norway. We focus on the effect of a new early retirement scheme ("AFP") of which some 60 percent of the population is eligible.
Aakvik, Arild   +2 more
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Report of the Special Commission to Study the Alteration of the Pension System for New Employees [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Attached you will find the Report of the Special Commission to study the Alteration of the Pension System for New Employees. In the end the Commission realized that major changes to the system would not yield large savings. On the other hand, it was also

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Comparative Clinical Trajectories Across Cannabis‐Related and Nonsubstance‐Related Psychoses

open access: yesActa Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Research indicates that first‐episode psychosis (FEP) with cannabis use disorder (CUD) carries a substantial disease burden, but more granular clinical trajectories of cannabis‐related psychoses remain unclear. This study examines the clinical trajectories of first clinically diagnosed FEP&CUD and cannabis‐induced psychosis (CIP) in
Antti Mustonen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do working conditions explain the increased risks of disability pension among men and women with low education? A follow-up of Swedish cohorts

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2014
OBJECTIVES: Rates of disability pension are greatly increased among people with low education. This study examines the extent to which associations between education and disability pensions might be explained by differences in working conditions ...
Daniel Falkstedt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Disability and social security reforms: The French case [PDF]

open access: yes
The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at “normal” retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement ...
Didier Blanchet   +3 more
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