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Pension system reform in China: Who gets what pensions?
, 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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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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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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 This paper uses unique and detailed transaction data to analyse herding behavior among pension funds. We distinguish between weak, semi strong and strong herding behaviour. Weak herding occurs if pension funds have similar rebalancing strategies. Semi strong herding arises when pension funds react similarly to other external shocks, such as changes in ...
Broeders, D. +3 more
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Social Science Research Network, 2016 This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS).
Lingguo Cheng +3 more
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A generic model for spouse's pensions with a view towards the calculation of liabilities
, 2015 We introduce a generic model for spouse's pensions. The generic model allows for the modeling of various types of spouse's pensions with payments commencing at the death of the insured.
Sokol, Alexander
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Educational Expansion as a Driver of Longer Working Lives?
Comparative Population StudiesThis study investigates the contribution of educational expansion to changes in labour force participation among Europeans aged 55-74 between 2000 and 2019, while accounting for changes in educational inequalities in labour market activity.
Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Kati Kuitto
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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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State pensions and the well-being of the elderly in the UK [PDF]
, 2006 This paper presents the trends seen over the last quarter of the 20thCentury in various indicators of the well-being of the elderlyalongside those seen for the young.
Banks, J +3 more
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