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The savings behaviour of German households: first experiences with state promoted private pensions [PDF]
The process of demographic change and the fact that the benefits of a growing proportion of pensioners must be financed by fewer and fewer contributors, poses major problems for the German pay-as-you-go pension scheme.
Börsch-Supan, Axel +2 more
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ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Retirement age expectations and preferences are shaped by individual, social, and government policy influences. Our paper reviews major policy changes in the Australian Retirement Income System over the past two decades and documents changes in Australian workers' expected and preferred retirement age. Research Findings/
Paul Gerrans +2 more
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Pension Reform in Mexico: The Evolution of Pension Fund Management Fees and their Effect on Pension Balances [PDF]
In 1997 Mexico introduced Personal Retirement Accounts (PRAs) which, after a transition phase, will completely replace the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system. We give a detailed overview of the relevant institutional framework, the market of PRA providers and ...
Emma Aguila +2 more
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Temporary Employment and First‐Time Homeownership in Australia
ABSTRACT Research Questions How does temporary employment, that is, fixed‐term contract and casual employment, affect the transition into first‐time homeownership among young people in Australia? Does the effect differ by employment type, gender, relationship situation, or parents' socio‐economic status?
Inga Laß
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes
Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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Abstract In order to address an ever‐growing crisis in higher education in England, policy makers need tools capable of meeting the challenge. Yet the Office for Students has been roundly criticised for its shortcomings as a regulator for the sector, weakening the response to its plethora of problems.
Timothy J. Oliver
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Housing, Inequality and London
Abstract Regional inequalities are deeply entrenched in the UK. London, and its wider region, is often seen as the beneficiary of these inequalities. The capital houses a disproportionate share of the nation's population and its economic output. But London is also home to higher levels of inequality, poverty and child poverty than anywhere else in the ...
Jack Brown, Joe Fyans
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Supplementary pension insurance in Slovenia: an analysis with an overlapping-generations general equilibrium model [PDF]
The article presents an analysis of supplementary pension insurance in Slovenia and its subsequent effects on welfare, macroeconomic variables and pension fund deficit with a dynamic OLG general equilibrium model.
Verbic, Miroslav
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What Are Select Committees For?
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
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