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Public virtue, private ambition—Women owners of private hospitals in early twentieth‐century New Zealand

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract New Zealand's early‐twentieth‐century health service was a two‐tier system of state hospitals supported by an expanding network of over 300 private hospitals, almost exclusively owned by nurses and midwives. This article will show that this environment was created by a legislative framework introduced between 1901 and 1906, requiring nurses ...
Ann‐Marie Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF THE ROMANIAN PENSION SYSTEM FROM AN EUROPEAN [PDF]

open access: yes
The political, economic, social, cultural and especially demographic aspects have put their inprints on the pension, so that it should keep in mind the way they were built and are building the European social policies in general, and EU policy on ...
VIRJAN DANIELA
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Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

EU pension reform - An overview of the debate and an empirical assessment of the main policy reform options [PDF]

open access: yes
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.
W. R�ger, K. Mc Morrow
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The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
wiley   +1 more source

SECURITY THROUGH DIVERSITY”: . PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION OF PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS

open access: yesQuantitative Methods in Economics, 2014
The program for pension system reform, launched at the beginning of 1997 in Poland, was called by its authors “Security through Diversity”. This title emphasizes that pension reform, which is designed to guarantee security for the insured, has to combine
Krzysztof Kompa, Tomasz Wiśniewski
doaj  

Pension System Reform: The Mexican Case

open access: yes, 1996
Carlos Sales-Sarrapy   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pension Reform in Bolivia: A Review of Approach and Experience [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper analyzes the Bolivian experience in switching from an old publicly managed pay-as-you-go pension system to a privately managed, fully funded pension system.Pension reform ...
Osvaldo Nina, Federico Escobar
core  

A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

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