Financial markets trend: ageing and pension system reform
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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Pension Funding, Share Prices, and National Saving [PDF]
This paper examines empirically the effect of unfunded pension obligations on corporate share prices and discusses the implications of these estimates for national saving, the decline of the stock market in recent years, and the rationality of corporate ...
Stephanie Seligman, Martin Feldstein
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Policy solutions to ameliorate the negative impact of aging on economic productivity: a systematic review. [PDF]
SSM Popul HealthLin TK +5 more
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Public pension and household saving: Evidence from China [PDF]
We relate household saving to pension reform, to explain the high household saving rates in urban China from a new perspective. We use the exogenous – policy induced - variation in pension wealth to explicitly estimate the impact of pension wealth on ...
Feng, Jin, He, Lixin, Sato, Hiroshi
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Endogenesis and empowerment: logic, practical mechanism and sustainable path of rural minor pension institutions -based on the qualitative study of four villages in the Midwest of China. [PDF]
Front Public HealthFan P, Fa R, Wang C.
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A Blue Print For Germany’s Pension Reform [PDF]
Germany relies almost exclusively on a public pay-as-you-go pension system for old-age in-come provision. This mandatory “retirement insurance” has become under severe pressure, mainly from population aging and from incentive effects that have reduced ...
Axel Börsch-Supan
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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Low social capital at work is associated with increased risk of perceived age discrimination: results from a prospective cohort study. [PDF]
Eur J AgeingMeng A +4 more
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