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Reducing health inequalities through work-a public health emergency? [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health in Practice
N. Amedzro, S. Boorman, G. Allsopp
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Increasing labor force participation in older age requires investments in work ability

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021
For well over 100 years, life expectancy in developed societies has increased by 2.5 years per decade (1). At first, most of the increase was due to decreased death rates at younger ages, but since the 1950s, the main reason has been better survival ...
Mikko Laaksonen
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Autoconcepto del alumnado universitario

open access: yesRevista de Estudios e Investigación en Psicología y Educación, 2022
El objetivo del estudio era conocer la relación entre el autoconcepto del alumnado universitario y variables académicas y personales, para identificar sus características en distintos grupos y, en futuras investigaciones, usar los resultados en la ...
Clara Vázquez, Alicia Risso
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The impact of vocational rehabilitation on employment outcomes: A regression discontinuity approach

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Since 2015, Finnish disability pension applicants who are rejected or receive a short-term temporary pension have, under certain conditions, also received a preliminary decision for vocational rehabilitation (VR).
Mikko Laaksonen   +2 more
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Career Stability in 14 Finnish Industrial Employee Cohorts in 1988–2015

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020
It is often argued that global competition and technological development have made industrial jobs more unstable. In this article, we ask how career stability has evolved in the Finnish forest, metal, and chemical industries, comparing 14 cohorts (age ...
Satu Ojala   +2 more
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Policy on the care of the mentally retarded

open access: yesCurationis, 1980
South Africa has always been intensely aware of those members of its population who suffer from mental retardation. Special provision was made for them in the Mental Disorders Act, 1916, and because there was no known form of therapy, they together with ...
P.H. Henning, A. Bruwer, A. Hilliard
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Structural-Functional Analysis of a Pension as an Object of Pension Legal Relations

open access: yesСибирское юридическое обозрение, 2021
The pension system of the Russian Federation has undergone three fundamental reforms. In 1992, the first law on pensions began to operate in Russia, which significantly differed from the Union legislation.
I. R. Mamatkazin
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Non-Contributory Pensions [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age-- we evaluate the effects of this program on the well-being of the beneficiary ...
Rosangela Bando   +2 more
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Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Parental leaves are, besides unemployment, the main reason for career breaks in early career. Despite the progress in recent decades towards more equal sharing of childcare between mothers and fathers, the labour market risk due to parenting remains ...
Kati Kuitto, Janne Salonen, Jan Helmdag
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Pensioner poverty over the next decade: what role for tax and benefit reform? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Recent falls in poverty amongst those aged 65 and over are unlikely to continue after 2007-08, even after the implementation of the proposals outlined in the Government's Pensions White Paper.
Brewer, M.   +5 more
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