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Developments in Pensions [PDF]

open access: possible, 2000
In both developed and developing countries, many elderly depend on government and employment-based pensions. Yet the pension institution faces difficult challenges, even as a rapidly growing aging population turns to it for retirement support. One development is that defined contribution plans have become very popular, sometimes at the expense of ...
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Pension Systems and Pension Disparities

2015
Different types of welfare states are important determinants of well-being and meeting needs, as they mediate and influence the socioeconomic positions in which individuals find themselves.
Gianni Betti   +3 more
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Pension, what pension?

BMJ, 2005
Leyla Sanai, who has been forced to take early retirement, discusses the problems of getting her ...
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Fair Pensions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This paper examines the allocation of market risk in a general class of collectivepension arrangements: Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) schemes. In a CDCscheme participants collectively share funding risk through benefit level adjustments. There is a concern that, if not well designed, CDC schemes are unfair and will lead to an unintended ...
Boelaars, Ilja, Broeders, Dirk
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MISSILES OR PENSIONS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1958
If you have ever watched a film of a rocket ascension, you will notice that the rocket starts out slowly and somewhat unsteadily, building up speed as it rises. It is during this first, slow acceleration that the flight can be cancelled by adverse winds and the rocket grounded.
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Pensions and Pension Schemes

2019
This chapter presents the main concepts and themes in the economics of pensions, including types of pensions and characteristics of alternative pension schemes. Other topics included are pension wealth accumulation and the discussion around pensions and implicit taxation paid work.
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The pension challenge

Nursing Older People, 2007
The state pension provides a disposable income of just over £37 a week, and 12 million people do not save enough for their old age. Result? Pensioner poverty, which is likely to get worse as more of those non-savers hit retirement age.
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Credible Pensions*

Fiscal Studies, 2005
One of the main problems in pension policy is to develop an institutional framework that guarantees that public and private pensions promises are kept. This paper discusses how the governance of public and private pensions is key to making such promises credible.
Timothy Besley, Andrea Prat
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Children and pensions

Journal of Population Economics, 1992
"Recent economic explanations of changes in fertility behaviour have focussed on the effects of labour-market-related incentives. The present paper draws attention to another set of incentives, those connected with the transfer of resources over time. The theoretical implications of intergenerational altruism as a possible motive for having children ...
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Commentary: Pensions and Pension Policy

National Institute Economic Review, 2005
The Pensions Commission is to make its recommendations on pension policy reform later this year, in the light of comments on the challenges identified in its first Report. Widespread agreement on the need for such reform is partly a consequence of problems which have already surfaced, such as the insolvency of some pension schemes, moves to curtail ...
Simon Broadbent   +2 more
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