Reform options for pay-as-you-go public pension systems [PDF]
Public pension schemes in many countries are predominantly of a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) type, particularly in advanced and transition economies. This paper reviews the types of stresses that PAYG systems can experience and discusses a range of policy ...
Chand, Sheetal K., Jaeger, Albert
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Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
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A study on the mode choice of large-scale households' farmland transfer-in in rural China: Based on the economic analysis paradigm of transaction costs. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 He G, Xiao T.
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Kyrgyzstan — Economic Reforms in 1996 [PDF]
The expectations of the government of Kyrgyzstan and the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan were quite optimistic. In 1996, despite of fiscal problems, further macroeconomic stabilization (i.e., reduction of the annual rate of inflation) and a stable rise of ...
Malgorzata Markiewicz
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Pensions in a shrinking economy: a comment on Kuné [PDF]
In a contribution to Pensions: An International Journal, Prof. Jan Kuné discusses whether a fully funded (FF) pension scheme can cope with a demographic shock better than a payas- you-go (PAYG) system.
Sergio Cesaratto
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Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies ( ARTs ) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This paper introduces reproductive curation, the deliberate coordination of reproductive arrangements, as a theoretical framework for examining how legal, institutional, and interpersonal factors interact with technology in shaping reproductive decision‐making, based on interviews with 32 lesbian mothers and mothers‐to‐be in China ...
Xiaomin Cai, Susanne Y. P. Choi
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The "Silent Reserves" of the Patriarchal Chinese Welfare System: Women as "Hidden" Contributors to Chinese Social Policy. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Wang Y, Liu T.
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study aims to reveal the heterogeneity of single parents by focusing on the variation in poverty risks across countries and across pathways into single parenthood. It also adjudicates between two contrasting explanations for cross‐national variation in single parent poverty. Background Single parenthood's strong association with
Roxana‐Diana Burciu
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja +4 more
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