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Social 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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Who is the right person to look after the mentally retarded?
Curationis, 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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Do pensions reduce the incentive to work? Evidence from Egypt [PDF]
Ekonomski 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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The Treatment of Couples by the Pension System: Survivor's Pensions and Pension Splitting
Population (english edition), 2012 Résumé Cette note de recherche examine les propriétés de deux dispositifs de droits conjugaux en matière de retraite : la réversion et le partage des droits. En cas de décès, la réversion assure plus ou moins bien le maintien du niveau de vie du conjoint survivant: dans un système sans condition de ressources, plus la pension propre du survivant est ...
Carole Bonnet +2 more
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The contribution of major diagnostic causes to socioeconomic differences in disability retirement
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2014 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was twofold: to investigate socioeconomic differences in disability retirement (DR) due to major diseases and find out which diseases contribute most to the overall socioeconomic differences in DR. METHODS: The data were
Anu Polvinen +4 more
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Pensions and pension reform in Nigeria [PDF]
Pensions: An International Journal, 2010 Welfare systems have been undergoing reform in most developing countries, and this is a major component of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank structural reform programme for developing economies. Unexpected change will occur in the relationship between people and those administering this welfare security scheme, in terms of the gains provided ...
Kareem O Idowu, Kareem F Olanike
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background The aim of this study was to examine how the use of outpatient and inpatient health services differs by occupational groups, and whether the differences are explained by sociodemographic factors and health status.
Hanna Rinne +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012 OBJECTIVES: Retirement from paid work is a major life event facing increasingly large numbers of people in the coming years. We examined trajectories of mental health five years before and five years after old-age and disability retirement using data on ...
Mikko Laaksonen +7 more
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Working-hour Trends in the Nordic Countries: Convergence or Divergence?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 In this article, we investigate changes in usual working hours and part-time work in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in recent decades. We analyze whether convergence or divergence occurred between countries, between men and women, and between men ...
Aart-Jan Riekhoff +2 more
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The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions
Sociological 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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