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Pension reform in the UK : re-casting the public/private mix in pension provision 1997-2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The UK is one of the few countries in Europe that is not facing a serious pension crisis. The reasons for this are straight forward: state pensions (both in terms of replacement ratio and as a proportion of average earnings) are among the lowest in ...
Fawcett, Helen
core   +3 more sources

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical case of complex rehabilitation for post-traumatic myelopathy using Taraskul lake sapropels

open access: yesВестник восстановительной медицины
BACKGROUND. Post-traumatic myelopathy (combat injury) is a serious condition that leads to severe functional impairment requiring complex rehabilitation based on assessment of functional impairment.
Tatyana V. Zhuravel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Peculiarities of the pension systems in different countries

open access: yesActa Academiae Beregsasiensis. Economics, 2022
The purpose of the study is to assess the pension systems of different countries and to study their features in order to highlight significant differences in their implementation in practice.
László Imre Kőrössy   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rational Pension Reform [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper is motivated by the idea to create, wherever possible, rational mechanisms that adapt pension systems automatically to a changed economic and demographic environment, rather than to leave such adaptations to discretionary high-profile pension ...
Axel Börsch-Supan
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Corporate pension funds in Ukraine: features of formation and development prospects

open access: yesУкраїнський соціум
The purpose of this article is to analyse and evaluate current trends in the development of corporate non-state pension funds, which over the last decade have become the main institutional element of the long-term savings system.
Makarenko Oleh
doaj   +1 more source

Instruments of Social Policy of the Eurasian Economic Union (Part 2)

open access: yesЕвразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2023
Aim. Taking into account the above, the purpose of the study was to analyze the patterns of development of the social policy of the Russian Federation, the republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, to consider their weaknesses and points ...
G. G. Rubtsov, O. N. Misko
doaj   +1 more source

Taxing Pensions

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically.
Cremer, Helmuth, Pestieau, Pierre
openaire   +6 more sources

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