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Welfare State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization and Europeanization [PDF]
In interdisciplinary research on welfare state regress in Western Europe, interest has focused on the causes and extent of retrenchment. Causal debates have concerned the role of globalization, post-industrialism, European integration, and partisan ...
Korpi, Walter
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Longevity impact on life insurers in low interest rate environment [PDF]
, 2018 This paper aims at shedding some light on the interplay between two key risk factors affecting most life insurance products, namely biometric and investment risk. We enhance the pioneering model by Briys and de Varenne, featuring a stylized participating
Bacinello, A. R. +2 more
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Insurance with multiple insurers: A game-theoretic approach [PDF]
, 2017 This paper studies the set of Pareto optimal insurance contracts and the core of an insurance game. Our setting allows multiple insurers with translation invariant preferences.
Asimit, A.V., Boonen, T. J.
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice +1 more
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WEATHER INDEX- THE BASIS OF WEATHER DERIVATIVES [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2011 This paper approaches the subject of Weather Derivatives, more exactly their basic element the weather index. The weather index has two forms, the Heating Degree Day (HDD) and the Cooling Degree Day (CDD). We will try to explain their origin, use and the
Botos Horia Mircea, Ciumas Cristina
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Modelling the fair value of annuities contracts: the impact of interest rate risk and mortality risk [PDF]
, 2006 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problem of the fair valuation of annuities contracts. The market consistent valuation of these products requires a pricing framework which includes the two main sources of risk affecting the value of the ...
Ballotta, L., Esposito, G., Haberman, S.
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When Rare Is Not Small: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Initiatives and Therapy
Exploration, EarlyView.In the precision‐medicine era, rare diseases must not be sidelined in translational infrastructure. The Mr. Cai Lei—led “Ice‐Breaking Team” turns an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient community into a sustainable ecosystem, realigning philanthropy, data, and research and development to reshape rare‐disease pipelines and guide precision therapies ...
Yang Liu +6 more
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, 2015 Societal and economic developments, such as the need for increased flexibility by both employers and workers, have resulted in the emergence of new forms of employment across Europe.
Eurofound
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
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LEX CONTRACTUS FOR SPECIFIC CONTRACTS UNDER THE ROME I REGULATION
Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2019 The choice of law in contract has emerged from three main factors the first factor is the place where contract is made, the performance of the contract and the nationality or the place where contract is made.
Toni Deskoski, Vangel Dokovski
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