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The Gender Dimensions of Pension Systems: Policies and Constraints for the Protection of Older Women [PDF]
, 2015 This paper documents the pervasiveness of women's lack of income security in old age across a large number of countries, but also points to a number of important policy measures that can be taken to address gender pension gaps.
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CEO Overconfidence, Industry Competition, and ESG Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay among CEO overconfidence, industry competition, and firms' ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. With the growing importance of ESG management, firms are investing more in ESG initiatives as a strategic approach to mitigating downside risk. However, overconfident CEOs, characterized by their
Taehyung Kim, Jaeseog Na
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Failure in Fully Funded Pensions: Voluntary Exchange and Coercion
Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsPrivate pension failure for much of the economics mainstream would be regarded as an artifact of markets that are insufficiently regulated, such that suppliers are able to exploit monopoly advantages, and are free to make serious errors of judgment ...
Mark Hyde +3 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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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon +4 more
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design [PDF]
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole.
Alessandro Cigno
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Attitudes toward redistribution have been widely studied, yet individuals respond differently to specific policies. Progressive taxation is one of the most effective mechanisms for reducing inequality and fostering more egalitarian societies, but little is known about the psychological factors shaping support for it.
Juan Matamoros‐Lima +2 more
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Retirement Expectations in Germany—Towards Rising Social Inequality?
Societies, 2018 In the last 20 years, German policy makers have reformed the pension system and the labor market with the aim of prolonging working life. As a consequence, older workers’ employment rate and average retirement age rose.
Moritz Hess
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Back to the drawing board: The economic crisis and its implications for pension provision in the United Kingdom [PDF]
This paper focuses on an issue, which so far has received relatively little attention by policy makers and the media, namely that the economic crisis has highlighted inherent weaknesses in existing pension systems in many countries.
Eich, Frank, Swarup, Amarendra
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How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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