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Local economic resilience and economic specialization in Greece during the crisis

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This paper scrutinizes the issue of economic resilience, aiming to detect the existence of a systematic link with economic specialization. To this end, the paper conducts an empirical analysis at the local (i.e., municipal) level of Greece during the economic crisis period (2009–2015), providing cartographic visualizations and spatial ...
Panagiotis Artelaris, Dimitris Kallioras, Anastasis Katsinis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional investors and securities markets : which comes first? [PDF]

Institutional investors comprise pension funds, insurance companies, and mutual funds. Should a country promote their creation if it lacks well-developed securities markets? The answer to this question, says the author, varies by type of investor.
Vittas, Dimitri
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Income and Social Supports: An Inclusive Systems‐Based Approach to Cash Transfer Program Design

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents a systems‐based framework for the inclusive design of cash transfer programs in Canada. Grounded in the goal of enhancing inclusion through an intersectional lens, the framework integrates insights from policy design, empirical economics, and systems thinking.
Gillian Petit, Lindsay Tedds
wiley   +1 more source

‘I Do Not Feel Great About It, but It Was the Logical Decision’—An Exploration of Why England's Agency Social Workers Have Left Permanent Child Protection Roles

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, England's statutory children's services recorded the highest number of agency social workers since records began. The cost of these workers, and the impact of an unsettled workforce on the children in receipt of their services, has led to a new set of national rules for agency social workers in children's social care.
Ciarán Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Supplementary Pension Funds in Hungary [PDF]

Hungary has about ten years history of pension privatization process and the Hungarian experience could be really instructive. This paper is focused on the supplementary pensions trying to prove that no kind of reform of state pension system is able to ...
Matits, Agnes
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Do Female Directors Protect Employee Pension Benefits? Evidence on the Nexus Between Pensions and Dividends

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether female directors influence firms' allocation of internal funds between dividend payments and defined benefit (DB) pension funding. Using FTSE All‐Share firms from 2007 to 2021, we find that companies with a higher proportion of female directors exhibit stronger pension funding positions and, overall, maintain ...
Zezeng Li, Erhan Kilincarslan
wiley   +1 more source

Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]

, 2010
Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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Government Financial Reporting: A Study of Nested Controversy

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are two schools of thought on government financial reporting: one emanating from societal values and accountability to citizens; and one based on investment decisions and a business approach. There are staunch proponents of these different perspectives, which are rooted in economic thought and values.
Sheila Ellwood, Rhoda Brown
wiley   +1 more source

The Pension Scheme in Vietnam: Current Status and Challenges in an Aging Society [PDF]

The publicly-managed Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) defined-benefit pension scheme in Vietnam is described, with an analysis of its financial sustainability in the context of an aging society in a dynamically efficient economy.
Giang, Thanh Long
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Quality of Employment of High School Graduates: Focusing on the Effect of Student Vocational Education and Training Experience

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to identify latent employment quality patterns among vocational high school graduates and examine how these patterns are influenced by their upper‐secondary vocational education and training (VET) experiences. Grounded in the International Labour Organisation's concept of decent work, this study considers employment quality ...
Seong Ji Jeong
wiley   +1 more source