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Do Social Pension Schemes Promote the Mental Health of Rural Middle-Aged and Old Residents? Evidence From China

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
As China experiences rapid aging, the mental health of older rural adults has become a major public health concern. Among other social insurance programs, the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP) scheme was established to replace part of the income for old ...
Guochen Pan   +4 more
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La riforma del sistema previdenziale ovvero il rapporto che non fu scritto

open access: yesMoneta e Credito, 2013
The Italian pension system, historically formed through continuously overlapping layers that lacked the foundation of a unified vision and the ability to look beyond short-term effects, possessed major characteristics of imbalance and of inequality at ...
O. CASTELLINO
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Combining ability and heterosis in partial resistance to gray leaf spot in elite maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes

open access: yesCrop Science, Volume 66, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
Abstract Six sets of 48 maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines, and their 96 single crosses generated using the North Carolina Mating Design II system, were evaluated for resistance to gray leaf spot (GLS). The aim of the study was to assess the implications of combining ability, heterotic effects, and potence ratio in breeding for GLS resistance in maize ...
James O. Nyanapah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proposal for a comprehensive retirement insurance solution (CRIS) to mitigate retirement risk based on theory of change

open access: yesEconomics and Business Review
The aim of the paper is to propose a new comprehensive retirement insurance solution (CRIS) that, by offering appropriate modules, can be flexibly adapted to customers’ needs during the accumulation of funds and entitlements and during retirement ...
Łyskawa Krzysztof, Bielawska Kamila
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The life-cycle hypothesis, fiscal policy and social security

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2012
The paper reviews some of the most important results of the Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) for understanding individual and aggregate saving behaviour.
Tullio Jappelli
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One or More Species of Pacific Tree Frogs? Insights From Vocal Sexual Signals

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
We investigated patterns of geographic variation in mating calls and how they relate to genetic and environmental distances among nine populations of Pacific tree frogs. We show that variation in the mating calls is better explained by mitochondrial lineage than by geographic or environmental distances among populations.
Alejandro Vélez, Colleen M. Ingram
wiley   +1 more source

Taxation of public pensions in European Union countries

open access: yesEconomics and Business Review
The aging of society is one of the most important trends shaping the social, economic and political life of the 21st century. However, with the increasing number of people of retirement age, the problem of ensuring adequate conditions for a longer life ...
Cieślukowski Maciej
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New Challenges for Trade Unions in the Face of Algorithmic Management in the Work Environment

open access: yesStudia z Zakresu Prawa Pracy i Polityki Społecznej, 2022
Algorithmic management is the subject of numerous scientific studies. This article attempts to answer the question of what kinds of new competencies and skills should be acquired by trade unions in ...
Paweł Nowik
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Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography Letters, Volume 10, Issue 5, Page 702-711, September 2025.
Abstract Cold thermal refuges may mitigate detrimental effects of future climate warming; yet, pond ecosystems have been largely omitted from thermal refuge research despite being globally numerous and providing critical ecosystem services. We create a formal definition for pond thermal refuge quality, then operationalize this definition by measuring ...
Samuel B. Fey   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reform of the bridging pension system – new rights and their economic consequences

open access: yesStudia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne
This research aims to determine the economic consequences of making bridging pensions permanent. We predict that this will increase the number of beneficiaries and the overall cost of the program.
Kolek Antoni Jerzy
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