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Doubtful Receivables' Risk and Its Impact on Stock Returns
ABSTRACT The current research proposes a previously unknown source of risk in relation to companies’ doubtful receivables. Higher relative doubtful receivables present a risk for companies' future cash flows. Hence, the article discusses an innovative risk measure associated with companies’ doubtful receivables.
Roi D. Taussig
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Sustainability of the Slovenian Pension System: An Analysis with an Overlapping-generations General Equilibrium Model [PDF]
The article presents an analysis of welfare effects in Slovenia, an analysis of macroeconomic effects of the Slovenian pension reform and an analysis of effects of the pension fund deficit on sustainability of Slovenian public finances with a dynamic OLG
Boris Majcen +2 more
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Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
ABSTRACT Despite the growing demand for gender‐disaggregated statistics on poverty, there is hardly any cross‐country evidence of gender disparities in poverty. The paper contributes to filling this gap, by using two novel individual‐level indices of multidimensional poverty.
Francesco Burchi, Daniele Malerba
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Private Pensions and Income Security in Old Age: An Uncertain Future -- Conference Report [PDF]
By all measures the private pension system in Canada is in difficulty. One estimate suggests that at the end of 2005 there were significant funding shortfalls in about three quarters of the traditional defined benefit pension plans that fall under ...
Martin Hering, Michael Kpessa
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ABSTRACT Given the benefits of workplace friendship, understanding its maintenance is essential. Age is particularly relevant due to the aging and increasingly age‐diverse workforce, yet its relationship with workplace friendship remains unclear, with prior studies reporting positive, negative, or null correlations. As age itself is a proxy for further
Ulrike Fasbender, Nina M. Junker
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Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan [PDF]
We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan's population ...
Charles Yuji Horioka +2 more
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We report here a new methodology to prepare functional poly(acetylene)s under aqueous conditions. This methodology is underpinned by poly(O‐propargyl‐N‐amino carbamate) (P1), a reactive poly(acetylene) carrying acyl hydrazines. Thus, P1 reacts with aldehydes to give functional poly(acetylene)s, including cationic, hydrophobic, and sugar‐loaded poly ...
Tom Leigh +8 more
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Does the New Rural Pension System Promote Farmland Transfer in the Context of Aging in Rural China: Evidence from the CHARLS. [PDF]
Wang Y, Yang Q, Xin L, Zhang J.
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EU pension reform - An overview of the debate and an empirical assessment of the main policy reform options [PDF]
This paper on European Union (EU) pension reform provides an overview of the debate and, on the basis of a series of model simulations, makes an empirical assessment of the main pension policy reform options at the EU, not the Member State, level.
K. Mc Morrow, W. R�ger
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The Effect of Corruption Priming on Happiness and Negative Emotions
ABSTRACT The 2023 World Happiness Report revealed that Israel had risen from ninth to fourth place in the global happiness index, with the absence of corruption identified as a significant contributing factor. Given the ongoing public discourse surrounding corruption in Israel, this study aimed to isolate and examine the specific impact of corruption ...
Meytal Machani, Zeev Shtudiner
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