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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 474-492, June 2025.Abstract There have been plenty of interpretations regarding the meaning and function of sacrifice within the discipline of anthropology. Going beyond sacrifice as a ritual and exploring a wide range of its manifestations and functions as contemporary cultural practices, discourses, and underlying logics, we reveal its role in the social organization ...
Angelina Kussy, Dolors Comas‐d'Argemir
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La sostenibilidad como excusa para una reestructuración del sistema de la Seguridad Social
Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 2015 El debate sobre la sostenibilidad de las pensiones del Sistema de la Seguridad está mal planteado. Desde el momento en que la “opción por la Seguridad Social” fue adoptada por el pueblo español al aprobar en referéndum la Constitución, las pensiones ...
Joaquín Aparicio Tovar
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Income Inequality and National Strategy for Inner Areas: Does Location Matter?
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 718-740, June 2025.ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between income inequality and municipalities classified as “inner areas” according to the classification proposed by the National Strategy for Inner Areas (NSIA) from 2012 to 2018. This classification categorizes municipalities into different groups based on their distance from essential service provision ...
Graziella Bonanno +2 more
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El Sistema de Pensiones en Polonia: Rendimiento de los Fondos de Pensiones
, 2020 The significant increase of the old-age-dependency ratio in Poland after the collapse of the centrally planned economy required transformation of the retirement system to adopt it to the current situation.
Kompa, Krzysztof, Witkowska, Dorota
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Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 349-364, May 2025.Abstract Previous research identifies the effects of immigration on social welfare from different perspectives. However, existing studies have not thoroughly explored how political institutions shape the nexus between immigration and the welfare state. This study argues that the types of government condition immigration's welfare effects.
Hang Qi
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ASSESSING ADMINISTRATION CHARGES FOR THE AFFILIATE IN INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT SYSTEMS [PDF]
In any pension system based on capitalization, affiliates have to cover certain explicit costs which in a pay-as-you-go system would be implicit. In this paper we set out a model based on Whitehouse (2000) and Diamond (1999) to enable the explicit costs ...
Rosa Rodríguez- Barrera +2 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 673-691, March 2025.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic profoundly impacted the paid domestic work sector in the global South, exacerbating long‐standing inequalities experienced by domestic workers. This article explores how domestic workers' organizations (DWOs) mobilized to support this marginalized workforce during the crisis.
Fernanda Teixeira
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Principal-Agent Problem with Minimum Performance Insurance [PDF]
A minimum performance insurance in the Principal-Agent problem is wealth reducing to the principal. This result points to further inefficiencies in mandatory individual Pension Funds' contracts, particularly the one established in the 1993's 100th Law in
Juan Manuel Julio
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Sistema privado de pensiones : alternativa de fondos de inversión
, 2009 Actualmente, las economías del mundo vienen sufriendo las consecuencias de una crisis financiera, que está afectando directamente a las Bolsas de los países de los cuales depende en parte el sistema económico peruano.
Quispe Moscoso, Oscar Hugo
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