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On annuities: an overview of the issues [PDF]

open access: yes
Longevity is increasing in the whole world, and savings for retirement are growing quickly. There is a potential demand for certainty in the income streams for pensioners since old-fashioned pay-as-you-go systems became financially stressed.
Ferro, Gustavo
core   +1 more source

Tackling Poverty Across the United Kingdom. Devolution, Difference and Discourse

open access: yesIPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UK welfare state is often considered as being highly centralised, yet the design and administration of UK social security involves significant spatial variations in law, policy, and practice. As such, where you live in the UK can affect the value of benefits and cash transfers you are entitled to, as well as how you experience benefit ...
Ruth Patrick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pension Systems (Un)sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties.
Burkhard Heer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Origins and Education of the British Civil Service Elite, 1945–2022

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a fuller account than previously available of the extent of change in the social backgrounds of the British civil service elite from 1945 onwards. We consider our findings in relation to questions of meritocracy in recruitment to the elite and of the representativeness of the elite of the population at large.
Erzsébet Bukodi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing the Implications of Strategies for Governing the COVID‐19 Pandemic for the Political Robustness of Five European Political Regimes

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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