COVID-19 and attitudes towards early withdrawal of pension funds: The role of trust and political ideology. [PDF]
J Econ Ageing, 2022 López F, Rosas G.
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Contractual savings or stock market development - Which leads? [PDF]
The authors study the relationship between the development of contractual savings (assets of pension funds, and life insurance companies) and non-life insurance, and, the development of stock markets (market capitalization and value traded).
Impavido, Gregorio +2 more
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Sustainability of Healthcare Financing in Greece: A Relation Between Public and Social Insurance Contributions and Delivery Expenditures. [PDF]
Inquiry, 2022 Mavridoglou G, Polyzos N.
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The Funded Pension Scheme in Uzbekistan: An Analysis
In recent years, the share of elderly in the total population is increasing around the world. Rising proportionally are claims on public pension systems and health care expenditures. This places extra pressure on government budgets.
Pfau, Wade Donald, Khasanbaev, Alisher
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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
wiley +1 more source
Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Reform of the Global Reserve System [PDF]
This paper explores the potential contribution of Asia’s sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to the reform of the global foreign exchange reserve system. By diversifying the investment of Asia’s huge reserves into non-dollar denominated assets, Asian SWFs can ...
Donghyun PARK, Andrew Rozanov
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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
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Medical insurance, health risks, and household financial asset allocation: evidence from China household finance survey. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2023 Li C +5 more
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The Role of International Diversification in Public Pension Systems: The Case of Pakistan
Pakistan’s pension system is in the process of increasing funding in anticipation of providing for a growing elderly population. The pension assets are mainly invested domestically, as it was just in January 2007 that regulations changed to allow the ...
Pfau, Wade Donald
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