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Governance for Pension Plans' Sustainable Transition: The Moderating Role of Corporate Social Identity

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pension plans may either limit their sustainability approach to commercial purposes or adopt governance practices aligned with sustainability principles, thereby strengthening their Corporate Social Identity (CSI). This paper explores the moderating role of CSI in the relationship between traditional corporate governance mechanisms and pension
Elisa Bocchialini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professional Volunteers

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
In 1939, Dr. William Osler Abbott used his opportunity with an audience at the Charaka Club in New York to recount the process for conducting necessary clinical research for his new gastroenterological technique for treating obstructions in the small ...
Sebastian Agredo
doaj   +1 more source

Inflation Insurance [PDF]

open access: yes
A contract to insure $1 against inflation is equivalent to a European call option on the consumer price index. When there is no deductible this call option is equivalent to a forward contract on the CPI.
Zvi Bodie
core  

Aspects of Non-Standard Employment in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
[Excerpt] This report investigates recent developments in non-standard employment in the European Union. While the overall policy context is ‘social protection for all’, it does not focus exclusively on social protection.
Eurofound
core   +1 more source

Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the role of patience in an insurance market with asymmetric information [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We analyse a 2-period competitive insurance market which is characterized by the simultaneous presence of standard moral hazard and adverse selection with regard to consumer time preferences.
Sonnenholzner, Michael, Wambach, Achim
core  

Labour Market Flexibility in Estonia: What More Can Be Done? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In mid-2008, high employment and low unemployment rates characterised the Estonian labour market in comparison with the average of the EU15 countries. While aggregate outcomes improved during 2000 07, large inequalities persisted across regions, ethnic ...
Brixiova, Zuzana
core   +1 more source

Does ESG Performance Reduce Default Risk in Insurance Firms? Evidence From Life and Non‐Life Sectors

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether environmental, social, and governance performance is associated with lower default risk in European insurance firms, and whether the strength of this association differs between life and non‐life business models.
S. Miani, M. Mantovani, E. Palmieri
wiley   +1 more source

Using the Black Scholes method for estimating high cost illness insurance premiums in Colombia

open access: yesInnovar: Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, 2009
This article applied the Black-Scholes option valuation formula to calculating high-cost illness reinsurance premiums in the Colombian health system. The coverage pattern used in reinsuring high-cost illnesses was replicated by means of a European call ...
Liliana Chicaíza, David Cabedo
doaj  

Precarious employment and occupational injuries in the digital age ‒ where should we go from here?

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2018
There is growing demand for a clearer understanding of whether precarious work is a social determinant of health (1‒5) and whether non-standard workers with less job security are more vulnerable to adverse safety and health outcomes.
Helen Marucci-Wellman
doaj   +1 more source

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