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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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Book Review: Malaria - What you should know about it

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Physiotherapy, 1983
No abstract ...
Department of Health, Welfare & Pensions
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Neural tube defects

open access: yesCurationis, 1981
Neural tube defects refer to any defect in the morphogenesis of the neural tube, the most common types being spina bifida and anencephaly. Spina bifida has been recognised in skeletons found in north-eastern Morocco and estimated to have an age of almost
M.E. Marshall
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Do pensions reduce the incentive to work? Evidence from Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2018
In this study we investigate the impact of the receipt of contributory and social pensions on the labour supply of individuals in Egypt, using individual fixed-effect regressions and panel data from the Egypt Labour Market Panel Surveys in 2006 ...
Cuong Nguyen Viet, Arouri Mohamed
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Grandmothers and Granddaughters : Old-Age Pensions and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa

open access: yes, 2003
This article evaluates the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on children's nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact.
E. Duflo
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Who is the right person to look after the mentally retarded?

open access: yesCurationis, 1980
A committee was set up in Britain in 1975 under the Chairmanship of Mrs Peggy Jay to look into the staffing of mental handicapped residential care in the National Health Service. Part of the task was to consider the Briggs Committee’s recommendation that
V. Ehlers
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Taxing Pensions

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically.
Cremer, Helmuth, Pestieau, Pierre
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Active Ageing, Pensions and Retirement in the UK

open access: yesJournal of Population Ageing, 2017
The ageing population has led to increasing concerns about pensions and their future sustainability. Much of the dominant policy discourse around ageing and pension provision over the last decade has focussed on postponing retirement and prolonging ...
L. Foster
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The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions

open access: yesSociological Science, 2023
At older ages, most people are supported by pension systems that provide payments based on prior contributions. An important, but neglected, aspect of inequality in how much people receive in pensions is the number of years they live to receive their ...
Jiaxin Shi, Martin Kolk
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Pension system reform in China: Who gets what pensions?

open access: yes, 2018
This article is the first examination of pension reform in China and its effects on different social groups over the past three decades. China's pension system has undergone radical transition from the state-employer model to a state-society one based on
Huoyun Zhu, A. Walker
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