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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing InsurTech Purchase Intentions Among Young Working Adults in Malaysia: A TRA Approach

JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
InsurTech is emerging as a key player in Malaysia's insurance landscape, bolstered by strong government support, regulatory initiatives, and increasing consumer demand for digital solutions.
Noor Ashikin Mohd Rom, Nur Hidayah Abdul Malek Beh, Nazatul Shima Abdul Rani, Nurbani Md. Hassan, Farha Zafira Agos Lokman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Productivity and efficiency performance of the Malaysian life insurance industry [PDF]

, 2000
This study aflempts to measure the productivity of the life insurance industry by employing the non-parametric Malmquist Index approach. The finding shows that despite the productivity growth in the insurance industry, it is relatively low compared to ...
Alias Radam,, Shazali Abu Mansor,
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Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
wiley   +1 more source

Issues and Challenges for the Romanian Insurance Market: Risk and Return Analysis [PDF]

Romanian insurance industry has a competitive market, having, however, a deep character of heterogeneity, which has had an impact on different financial ratios that define it.
Dan-Oliver STAICU, Ingrid-Mihaela DRAGOTA   +1 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes towards insurance: the role of propensity to hold liquid asset [PDF]

There’s a lack of research on the relationship between families’ attitudes toward insurance and their financial behavior. The Italian insurance market appears weak with regard to non life and non motor insurance: Italy ranks only 18th in Europe in terms ...
Antonino Iero, Giorgio Tassinari
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing sustainability: The impact of ESG factors in global insurance performance

Borsa Istanbul Review
Sustainability has become a critical concern in finance, in particular for the insurance industry, which faces rising environmental and social risks.
Hasan Meral, Behlul Ersoy, Mesut Dogan
doaj   +1 more source

Stochastic Frontier Estimation of Technical Efficiency Measurement in the Iranian Insurance Companies [PDF]

فصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2004
The main objective in this paper is twofold: measuring technical efficiency and indicating its determinant factors for the Iranian insurance companies.
Khosrow Piraee,, Hosein Kazemi
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