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Dismantling the earnings-related social pension scheme: Germany beyond a crossroad [PDF]
A paradigm shift in pension policy decided by the German red-green coalition government will affect the level and structure of pension benefits as well as the mix of old-age security arrangements remarkably.
Schmähl, Winfried
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of corporate social responsibility (CSR) decoupling, wherein firms' CSR disclosures diverge from their actual CSR performance, often resulting in misleading portrayals of environmental and social commitments commonly associated with greenwashing.
María Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez +2 more
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Private Pension Funds in Hungary: Politics, Institutions, and Performance [PDF]
The new pension system launched in Hungary in 1998 is epoch-making for having introduced a mandatory private pension scheme (MPPS). However, the political decision-making on pension reform and the scheme operations have been greatly influenced by ...
Iwasaki, Ichiro, Sato, Kazuko
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Collective Wage Co‐ordination and the Costs of Job Displacement
British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether a higher level of co‐ordination in collective wage bargaining affects the wage costs of job displacement. We use quasi‐exogenous variation in the timing of job loss due to mass layoffs spanning an institutional reform that introduced national ceilings to wage agreements negotiated at sectoral‐ and firm‐level—the
Sofía Fernández‐Guerrico +1 more
wiley +1 more source
Globalization's challenge to pension reform in Western Europe [PDF]
The following suggests that demographic changes and the creation of a single currency in Europe has compelled greater EU intervention in pension reform.
M. Dudek Carolyn, Pieter Omtzigt
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Demographics and the Welfare State—From One Crisis to the Next?
Bulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent demographic projections point to lower fertility rates, and in most countries below the reproduction level. This is widely perceived to add further burdens to already strained public finances due to increasing longevity and aging populations.
Torben M. Andersen
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Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The literature on adolescents' perspectives on growing up in kinship care is limited. The study aims to explore the lived experiences of adolescents in grandparent kinship care by examining how they respond to adversity, build support and exercise agency. The study recruited 22 grandparent–adolescent pairs in a large Korean city.
Eunju Lee +4 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Care leavers often encounter considerable health and well‐being challenges, underscoring the need for continued support into early adulthood. This small‐scale mixed‐methods study explored the health, well‐being and extended care experiences of participants in the South Australian Next Steps pilot program for residential care leavers, assessed ...
Sally‐Ann Keipert +3 more
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An Assessment of the Italian 2007 Second Pillar Reform: a simulation approach [PDF]
In this paper we aim at assessing the outcomes of the 2007 Italian reform of the complementary social security and to identify the determinants behind them.
Corsini, Lorenzo +2 more
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