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Pensions and the health of older people in South Africa: Is there an effect? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper critically reviews evidence from low and middle income countries that pensions are associated with better health outcomes for older people.
Barrientos A.   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Final Report of the Special Legislative Commission to Study the Employees Retirement System in Rhode Island [PDF]

open access: yes, 1970
The Commission to Study the State Retirement System proposed the following recommendations in summary form, which it considers feasible and practicable for revising and upgrading the existing retirement plans in accordance with principles that have ...

core   +1 more source

The impact on incentives of five years of social security reform in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The UK’s Labour Government has expanded means-testing of social security but attempted to do so while minimising the disincentive effects typically associated with such an approach.
Brewer, M., Clark, T.
core   +1 more source

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Media Attention to Climate Change and Investor Flows in US Equity Mutual Funds

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate‐related news influences mutual fund investor behaviour in the United States. Although prior research has documented the financial relevance of climate risks, little is known about how media attention to climate change shapes capital allocation across mutual funds.
Laura Andreu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
wiley   +1 more source

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

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