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A Macro Analysis of China Pension Pooling System: Incentive Issues and Financial Problem [PDF]

open access: yes
Over a decade-long of pension reform in China has became much more critical in recent years. Problems of pension reform have started to reveal rapidly and pension reform pace has apparently slowed down.
Chen, Vivian Y.
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A Boomtown at Risk: Austin's Mounting Public Pension Debt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The increase in Austin's pension debt over the last decade is due in part to the fact that as the population grew, demand for public services increased and the city added more than 1,000 public employees between 2010 and 2015.
Josh McGee, Paulina S. Diaz Aguirre
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Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering needs assessment and access to medical rehabilitation for patients with chronic disease and endangered work ability: protocol of a multilevel evaluation on the effectiveness and efficacy of a CME intervention for general practitioners

open access: yesJournal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2017
Background Studies show that endangered work ability (EWA) can be maintained or restored through medical rehabilitation (MR). For patients, general practitioners (GP) represent an important point of access to MR in outpatient care.
Stephan Fuchs   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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Firm‐Size Heterogeneity in the Effects of ESG Disclosure on Firm Value Under Institutional Reform: Evidence From Japan

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on firm‐size heterogeneity, this study examines how institutional reform reshapes the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on firm value. Using 2019–2023 panel data on 1427 Japanese listed firms (before and after the 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange reorganization and Corporate Governance Code revision), this ...
Akio Nakashima, Kimitaka Nishitani
wiley   +1 more source

Governance for Pension Plans' Sustainable Transition: The Moderating Role of Corporate Social Identity

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pension plans may either limit their sustainability approach to commercial purposes or adopt governance practices aligned with sustainability principles, thereby strengthening their Corporate Social Identity (CSI). This paper explores the moderating role of CSI in the relationship between traditional corporate governance mechanisms and pension
Elisa Bocchialini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dennis Walton\u27s Capital Wars [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
[Excerpt] If Steven Spielberg were to make a movie on how the building trades are using their pension funds to create work for their members, the film would be called Capital Wars and Dennis Walton would play the part of Han Solo, says Randy Barber ...
Banks, Andrew R.
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE RATING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-STATE PENSION FUNDS IN UKRAINE

open access: yesWORLD OF FINANCE, 2019
Introduction. Rating of private pension funds (PPFs) is an instrument that provides a comprehensive understanding of the results of the activity of funds. Ratings are an important component in business information that contributes to maintaining trust in PPF activities. That's why research into fund rating issues is an actual area of research.
openaire   +2 more sources

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