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The pension challenge

Nursing Older People, 2007
The state pension provides a disposable income of just over £37 a week, and 12 million people do not save enough for their old age. Result? Pensioner poverty, which is likely to get worse as more of those non-savers hit retirement age.
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Children and pensions

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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Commentary: Pensions and Pension Policy

National Institute Economic Review, 2005
The 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, Justin van de Ven, Martin Weale   +2 more
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Pensions and Pension Schemes

2019
This chapter presents the main concepts and themes in the economics of pensions, including types of pensions and characteristics of alternative pension schemes. Other topics included are pension wealth accumulation and the discussion around pensions and implicit taxation paid work.
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Preying on pensions

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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Credible Pensions*

Fiscal Studies, 2005
One of the main problems in pension policy is to develop an institutional framework that guarantees that public and private pensions promises are kept. This paper discusses how the governance of public and private pensions is key to making such promises credible.
Timothy Besley, Andrea Prat
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Pensions and Politics

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2003
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A critical perspective on pension accounting, pension research and pension terminations

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1992
Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the implications of pension accounting principle changes in the 1980s for conflicts involving ownership of pension surpluses and distribution of wealth between shareholders and employees. Pension accounting measurement and disclosure issues are related to pension terminations in the mid 1980s which ...
Sara Ann Reiter, Thomas Omer
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Pension Reform and the Welfare of Pensioners

Fiscal Studies, 2005
With 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 and Pensioners in War and Depression

2000
Abstract 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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