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Frailty and Risk Classification for Life Annuity Portfolios
Risks, 2016 Life annuities are attractive mainly for healthy people. In order to expand their business, in recent years, some insurers have started offering higher annuity rates to those whose health conditions are critical. Life annuity portfolios are then supposed
Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco
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Racism at Work: A Critical Qualitative Investigation
The Career Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An area of life that is profoundly impacted by anti‐Black racism is the world of work. Black Americans face persistent barriers from hiring to wage inequality to everyday mistreatment. In response, we conducted a critical qualitative investigation to explore how racism manifests in workplaces, uncover overlooked aspects of Black Americans ...
Michael Gordon +3 more
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Gender and Extended Actuarial Functions in Pension Insurance [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2012 This paper brings analysis of the impact of a ban on the use of gender in insurance, with special stress on pension annuity, according to the requirements of the European Court of Justice. The paper brings a state-of-theart overview of known and extended
Jana Špirková, Mária Spišiaková
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Production function estimation and economics of fast-growing plants cultivation for bioenergy purposes. Case study of Kolíňany [PDF]
Mathematics in Education, Research and Applications, 2020 The paper explores the economic opportunities of growing fast-growing plants for bioenergy production and use. Based on primary data of the above-ground dry biomass of the Miscanthus × giganteus, from the experimental field of Kolíňany, the average yield
Martin Mariš
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Joint Life Annuities and Annuity Demand by Married Couples [PDF]
The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2000 ABSTRACT This article summarizes the range of joint-life annuity products that are currently available to married couples, and it explores the potential utility gain that such couples receive from access to actuarially fair annuity markets. It is more difficult to estimate this utility gain for couples than for individuals because a couple's value of ...
Jeffrey R. Brown, James M. Poterba
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
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Coresidence: How parental characteristics matter
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Coresidence in the parental home is known to depend on young adult characteristics and market conditions, but there is more limited knowledge on whether or how parental characteristics matter. We model the coresidence outcome as a multigenerational joint optimization decision and use Panel Study of Income Dynamics data to examine the ...
Arthur Acolin +2 more
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How much are you willing to pay to avoid lockdowns? Evidence from the real estate market
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, numerous countries implemented lockdowns. In Victoria, Australia, a unique two‐tier system was employed, segregating areas with a Ring of Steel boundary and imposing additional restrictions within. This study focuses on the impact of lockdowns on housing prices and rents, exploring whether people are ...
Jian Liang, Chyi Lin Lee, Qiang Li
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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