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Journal of Population Economics, 1992
"Recent economic explanations of changes in fertility behaviour have focussed on the effects of labour-market-related incentives. The present paper draws attention to another set of incentives, those connected with the transfer of resources over time. The theoretical implications of intergenerational altruism as a possible motive for having children ...
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"Recent economic explanations of changes in fertility behaviour have focussed on the effects of labour-market-related incentives. The present paper draws attention to another set of incentives, those connected with the transfer of resources over time. The theoretical implications of intergenerational altruism as a possible motive for having children ...
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Commentary: Pensions and Pension Policy
National Institute Economic Review, 2005The Pensions Commission is to make its recommendations on pension policy reform later this year, in the light of comments on the challenges identified in its first Report. Widespread agreement on the need for such reform is partly a consequence of problems which have already surfaced, such as the insolvency of some pension schemes, moves to curtail ...
Simon Broadbent +2 more
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Pension Adequacy and the Pension Review
The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2011AbstractIt has long been accepted that the adequacy of payments is a key objective of any social security system, where adequacy is defined as the ability of a payment to support a basic acceptable standard of living that is consistent with prevailing community standards. The 2009 Harmer Pension Review directed attention to the adequacy of the pension,
Peter Saunders, Melissa Wong
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Nursing Standard, 1988
Nurses have been warned about 'unscrupulous' insurance salesmen who may be persuading them to opt out of the NHS superannuation scheme under the new pension laws.
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Nurses have been warned about 'unscrupulous' insurance salesmen who may be persuading them to opt out of the NHS superannuation scheme under the new pension laws.
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Pension Reform and the Welfare of Pensioners
Fiscal Studies, 2005With extraordinarily good timing, the Economics section of the British Association, meeting in Exeter in September 2004, chose to look at pension reform. The newspapers were full of stories about the forthcoming Turner Report on pension reform. At the event, which was organised by Richard Blundell, President of the Economics section in 2004 and ...
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Pensions in Europe, European Pensions
2009Pension policy represents in many respects the corner stone of the contemporary European welfare states. And its reform has emerged as a key issue in most of the European countries. This book aims at improving the knowledge of the long-term and more recent evolution of retirement programmes and their regulation at national and supranational level.
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Pension reform, personal pensions and gender differences in pension coverage
World Development, 1998Abstract The Personal Pension Scheme introduced in Chile in 1981 has acquired a paradigmatic role for pension reform in less developed and developed countries. In contrast to the significant gender gap in private pension coverage observed in developed countries, in Chile women's participation in the personal pension scheme is marginally higher than ...
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Partnership in Pensions? Responses to the Pensions Green Paper [PDF]
, 1999 The government's pensions Green Paper 'a new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions' proposes fundamental changes to the UK's retirement income system. Members of CASE and the Department of Social Policy at LSE have looked at the likely implications of the reforms for pensioner poverty, income security in old age, economic growth, the National ...
Philip Agulnik +3 more
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Pensions and Pensioners in War and Depression
2000Abstract The state pension, low and means-tested though it was, gave a regular and secure income to a higher proportion of old people than the poor relief system had ever done. It rescued some of them from painful and degrading labour, enabled more of them to keep independent households, and assisted families to support ageing ...
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