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Cross‐Border Acquisitions by African Firms: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Ownership Participation

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Executive Summary Strategic decisions related to ownership participation in cross‐border acquisitions (CBAs) are among the most fundamental choices for African firms to address the unique internationalization challenges related to their home country context.
Dominik Anderhofstadt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Back to the drawing board: The economic crisis and its implications for pension provision in the United Kingdom [PDF]

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This paper focuses on an issue, which so far has received relatively little attention by policy makers and the media, namely that the economic crisis has highlighted inherent weaknesses in existing pension systems in many countries.
Eich, Frank, Swarup, Amarendra
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Great (Retirement) Expectations: A Review of Retirement Income Policy and Changes to Expected and Preferred Retirement Age of Australian Workers

open access: yesAustralian Economic Review, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Why Forcing People to Save Retirement May Backfire [PDF]

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Early retirement is predominantly considered to be the result of incentives set by social security and the tax system. But the Swiss example demonstrates that the incidence of early retirement has dramatically increased even in the absence of ...
Federica Teppa   +2 more
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Population aging and the rising costs of public pension in Brazil [PDF]

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This article examines the evolution of retirement in Brazil and its old-age support programs (public pension). The key objective is to show that given the current trend in population and size of the programs, their sustainability in the near future may ...
Bernardo Lanza Queiroz   +1 more
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