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Health, longevity and pension reform

open access: yes, 2018
In this paper, we study alternative pension reforms designed to achieve fiscal sustainability in the face of demographic change. We are particularly interested in the heterogeneous effects across demographic groups, as improvements in health and longevity have not been uniform across the population.
Laun, Tobias   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Hybrid Regulation and Employer Signalling of Disability Inclusion in UK Job Adverts

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In liberal market economies, the role of employers in shaping equality regulation has become increasingly prominent, leading to the emergence of new hybrid forms of employer‐driven state and joint regulation that are reshaping the institutional architecture of equality. This study assesses the relationship between these hybrid regulatory forms
Nick Bacon, Kim Hoque, Jafar Sabbah
wiley   +1 more source

The Value of Financial Advice and Portfolio Rebalancing for Retirement Savings

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Utilising a sample of over 55,000 retirement portfolio rebalances, we examine (i) who seeks financial advice prior to rebalancing, and (ii) compare portfolio outcomes between advised and self‐directed rebalances. We find that wealthier, older, and female members are more likely to receive financial advice prior to rebalancing, and that advice ...
Kirsten L. MacDonald   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persistence of the Positive Impact of Legislative Strategies to Constrain Multinational Corporate Tax Avoidance in Light of the ‘PwC Tax Scandal’

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of Australia's multinational anti‐avoidance legislation and diverted profits tax on restricting corporate tax avoidance (CTA) among foreign significant global entities (SGEs) operating in Australia, in light of the Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) tax scandal.
Mikhail Shashnov   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing lower‐level gambling harms: Shifting from individual‐ to system‐frame approaches

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Gambling‐related harm is not concentrated solely among individuals meeting criteria for problematic or disordered gambling. Tackling harm at a population level is essential to reducing the total burden of harm and preventing escalation to more severe harms.
Robert M. Heirene
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance on Gambling Policies in New South Wales, Australia: The Rise of the Poker Machine

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives. Using a case study, it links vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI), caused by changes to the state‐federal taxation structure, to the ...
Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous coalition formation in policy debates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political actors form coalitions around their joint normative beliefs in order to influence the policy process on contentious issues such as climate change or population aging. Policy process theory maintains that learning within and across coalitions is a central predictor of policy change but has yet to explain how policy learning works ...
Philip Leifeld, Laurence Brandenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Incentives, Health, and Retirement: Evidence From a Finnish Pension Reform. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Econ
Ollonqvist J   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Limits of Convergence in the Enlarged Europe: Change in Labour Conditions in a Shipbuilder's Sites in Norway and Romania

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 2000s, questions were open on whether the EU eastern enlargement would contribute to upwards or downwards convergence in labour standards, or even to divergence. Over two decades later, it is possible not only to attempt an answer, but also to identify the industrial relations processes that mediate economic integration between widely ...
Jon Erik Dølvik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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