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The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
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Financial Instability and Life Insurance Demand [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper estimates private life insurance and Kampo demand functions using household-level data provided by the Postal Services Research Institute. The results show that income, children, pension and knowledge factors have a significant effect on the ...
Mahito Okura, Norihiro Kasuga
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Теоретичні основи функціонування державного пенсійного страхування України [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
У статті розглянуто закономірності функціонування державного пенсійного страхування в умовах реформування пенсійних систем. Обґрунтовано вплив екзогенних і ендогенних чинників реформування пенсійних систем та їхній вплив на державне пенсійне страхування.
Петрушка, О. В.
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Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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Securitization of Longevity and Mortality Risk [PDF]

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This paper deals with Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) through the securitization of longevity and mortality risks in pension plans and commercial life insurance. Various types of such mortality-linked securities are described (e.g., CATM bonds, longevity
Tomas Cipra
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Effects of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty and Asymmetric Spillovers: Evidence From Korea

open access: yesPacific Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Uncertainty surrounding tax, expenditure and debt policy exerts an impact on the real economy. Motivated by this, our study investigates the effects of fiscal policy uncertainty (FPU) on macroeconomic and fiscal aggregates in Korea. Using a recently developed Korea FPU index, we show that while shocks to FPU lead to an increase in government ...
Dooyeon Cho, Yeonjin Song
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ANALYSIS OF THE ROMANIAN PENSION SYSTEM FROM AN EUROPEAN [PDF]

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The political, economic, social, cultural and especially demographic aspects have put their inprints on the pension, so that it should keep in mind the way they were built and are building the European social policies in general, and EU policy on ...
VIRJAN DANIELA
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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