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The role of the non‐profit sector in the efficiency of elderly social services: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis study

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Social services for the elderly are becoming increasingly important in societies where the elderly population is growing and requires specific attention to ensure their well‐being. Within these services, nursing homes play a key role, and it is therefore vital to ensure efficient management with an assessment according to their characteristics,
Georgina Solaz‐Moreno   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance - An Overview of Theory and Empirics [PDF]

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We review the theoretical literature on defined benefit (DB) pension plans, particularly focusing on the issue of plan underfunding and benefit guarantee insurance schemes.
Mario Jametti
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The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and Its Implications for UK Wage Policy

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual 1% sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK's official earnings statistics. These statistics are produced using official weights designed to make the achieved sample in each year representative of the population of employee jobs in Britain by gender, age ...
John Forth   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving regulations and supervision of pension funds : are there lessons from the Banking Sector? [PDF]

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The main objective of this paper is to review the regulatory framework for pension funds, and examine whether there is scope for improvements in pension regulation, particularly in light of regulatory and supervisory developments in the banking industry.
Gutierrez, Joaquin   +2 more
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Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACT OF INTEGRATED SUPERVISION ON VOLUNTARY PENSION INSURANCE EFFICIENCY

open access: yesEconomic Review, 2011
Adequate supervision (control) of the functioning of voluntary pension insurance is one of the preconditions for the development of this form of insurance. The primary objective of supervision is to protect insured persons and insurance beneficiaries by
Tatjana Rakonjac-Antić, Vesna Rajić
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