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Non-Contributory Pensions [PDF]
SSRN 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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Reducing health inequalities through work-a public health emergency? [PDF]
Public Health in PracticeN. Amedzro, S. Boorman, G. Allsopp
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Increasing labor force participation in older age requires investments in work ability
Scandinavian 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
Revista 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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Social Pensions and Child Health in Rural China
Journal of Development Studies, 2020 Social pensions are important cash transfers to the elderly and their families. The pensions may not only affect the wellbeing of the direct recipients, but also have household and intergenerational spillover effects. Using the 2012 and 2014 waves of the
Xiaodong Zheng, X. Fang, Derek S. Brown
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The impact of vocational rehabilitation on employment outcomes: A regression discontinuity approach
Scandinavian 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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Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2020 Unemployment periods and other career breaks have long-term scarring effects on future labour market possibilities, permanently affecting workers' retirement income and standard of living as pensioners.
J. Bravo, Jose A. Herce
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Career Stability in 14 Finnish Industrial Employee Cohorts in 1988–2015
Nordic 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
Curationis, 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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Pensioner poverty over the next decade: what role for tax and benefit reform? [PDF]
, 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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