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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
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A NEW STAGE OF PENSION REFORM IN RUSSIA: INCREASING PRIVATE PENSIONS
Финансы: теория и практика, 2017 Article Retracted.A new stage of the pension reform in Russia scheduled for 2015 will be an extension of parametric and institutional reforms aimed at the restructuring of the economic and social system of the country to further adapt it to market ...
Arkady K. Solovyev
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Private Pensions in Romania. Management - Marketing - Effects and Expectations [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2010 After Romania’s admission into the European Union, Romanian started to reformulate its policies and operation rules in its trial to be more flexible, to have a more consistent budget, to better answer the people’s needs.
Elena ENACHE, Sorin ENACHE
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Gastarbeiters’ old age: strategies of life choices among the migrant population of pensioners
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 The focus of our research was on the old age life strategies of retired gastarbeiters. For labor migrants who went to work “temporarily” abroad, becoming pensioners opens up a slew of problematic issues about their social status in host countries.
Dragana Antonijević +1 more
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The Value and Risk of Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: International Evidence [PDF]
Using data on historical returns on international financial assets, the paper simulates pension fund and pension replacement ratios, building up frequency distributions of these ratios for individuals saving in a defined contribution pension plan in ...
Edmund Cannon, Ian Tonks
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Sustainability Reporting and External Assurance: Evidence From UK Listed Firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper develops and tests a model explaining why some companies obtain external assurance for their sustainability reports while others do not. Our model integrates rational choice and stakeholder theories, providing novel insights into the sustainability assurance literature.
Ibrahim A. Alkhataybeh +3 more
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Trust – the Intangible Asset of Policyholder Behavior on Insurance Market
Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2016 Our analysis aims to identify the typology of consumers’ behavior on insurance market. The initial sample consisted of 1579 individuals who were randomly selected by Metro Media Transilvania (MMT) with the Computer-Assisted Telephonic Interview (CATI ...
Mureşan Gabriela-Mihaela +1 more
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Can Hybrid Organisations Solve the Paradox of the Triple Bottom Line, and Does It Need Solving?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how B Corp certification enables hybrid organisations to integrate competing institutional logics of market and social purpose. Through a two‐stage qualitative design combining cross‐sector interviews with B Corps and an in‐depth case study, with a total of 30 participants, we analyse how certification supports hybrid ...
Ruth Cherrington +3 more
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The ageing population and the associated challenges of the Slovenian pension system [PDF]
The article presents an analysis of welfare effects in Slovenia, an analysis of supplementary pension insurance in Slovenia and an analysis of effects of the pension fund deficit on sustainability of Slovenian public finances.
Verbic, Miroslav
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Pension systems and financial systems in Europe: a comparison from the point of view of complementarity : [Version July 2001] [PDF]
, 2001 At present, the question of how national pension or retirement payment systems should be organised is being hotly debated in various countries, and opinions vary widely as to what should be regarded as the optimal design for such systems.
Schmidt, Reinhard H., Tyrell, Marcel
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