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Why Forcing People to Save Retirement May Backfire [PDF]
Early retirement is predominantly considered to be the result of incentives set by social security and the tax system. But the Swiss example demonstrates that the incidence of early retirement has dramatically increased even in the absence of ...
Federica Teppa +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pension funds are the largest combined institutional investors in the world. The integration of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria into defined contribution (DC) pension investments by pension funds can result in sustainable pensions that are in line with pension beneficiary preferences and help achieve Sustainable Development
Doran Bairbre +4 more
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The simple(r) algebra of pension plans [PDF]
Chile's success with pension reform in the early 1980s and the continuing financial pressures facing the social security systems of many developing (and some industrial) countries have elicited considerable interest in the mechanics of pension systems ...
Vittas, Dimitri
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Executive Summary Strategic decisions related to ownership participation in cross‐border acquisitions (CBAs) are among the most fundamental choices for African firms to address the unique internationalization challenges related to their home country context.
Dominik Anderhofstadt +2 more
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Pension, Fertility, and Education [PDF]
A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and education, we ...
Matthias Wrede, Volker Meier
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The integrated crop‐livestock system (ICLS) involves rural households simultaneously engaging in crop cultivation and livestock rearing, embodying the principles of a circular bioeconomy. In this system, crop cultivation produces straw as livestock feed, while livestock rearing generates manure that enriches the soil for crop production.
Hongyun Zheng +4 more
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Pension fund capitalism and financial crisis
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 "Basic public pension schemes and cut backs in earnings-related public pensions led to an increasing role of supplementary pensions such as pension funds for old-age incomes. In addition to demographic changes that challenge public pensions, private pensions face financial market risks.
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Retirement Expectations and Pension Reforms [PDF]
We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations and wealth accumulation decisions. We rely on self-reported expectations to measure perceived social security benefits and to a series of pension reforms as a source of exogenous ...
Mario Padula +2 more
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Urban Water Demand: Income and Price Elasticities
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use bimonthly water consumption data from 580,000 households in the metropolitan region of Western Australia over the period 2015–2020 to analyse urban residential water demand. A generalised two‐stage least squares (G2SLS) approach is used to estimate water consumption as a function of price, household income, weather variables, property ...
Alemken Jegnie +3 more
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Financial markets trend: ageing and pension system reform [PDF]
Ageing have prompted important changes in the structure of pension system with substantial differences across the most developed countries. Given that ageing populations are driving a growing need for private form of saving for retirement, the pension ...
Panetta, Ida Claudia
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