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Pension Fund Capitalism and Financial Crisis. IHS Political Science Series 126, December 2011 [PDF]
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.
Wiß, Tobias
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Statistical analyses of the performance of Macedonian investment and pension funds
The foundation of the post-modern portfolio theory is creating a portfolio based on a desired target return. This specifically applies to the performance of investment and pension funds that provide a rate of return meeting payment requirements from ...
Petar Taleski, Vasko Bogdanovski
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Non-Governmental Pension Support as an Element of Multitier Pension System
Non-governmental pension funds (N-GPF) act as an important tool for resolving social problems in the field of pension support. Today 39 non-governmental pension funds work in Russia. All of them have got licenses for their operation.
I. V. Balashova, T. A. Tereshchenko
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A pension fund for European scientists [PDF]
Scientists are part of a global community who freely exchange ideas and materials; many researchers are engaged in international cooperation and collaborative research projects. In fact, traveling and working abroad is not only a necessity; spending some time abroad as a graduate student, postdoc, or visiting scientist also boosts their careers ...
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
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
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Abstract The growth of pension funds has been nothing short of astronomical. Pension funds now dominate the world’s financial markets, affecting nations’ wealth, community development, and industrial well being. Yet little is known about their structure and organization.
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Pension Funding in the Public Sector [PDF]
This paper explores the determinants of pension funding in the public sector. We formulate and test several hypotheses about the determinants of public employer pension funding practices, using a new data set describing financial and other characteristics of state, local, and teacher plans.
Mitchell, Olivia S, Smith, Robert S
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