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Estimating the Impact of the 1999 Pension Reform in Poland, 2000 - 2050 [PDF]
This paper gives an account of the main aims and principles of the reform measures which came into force in 1999. Its primary objective is to present estimations of the effects of these measures on the composition of the pension system, over the next 50 ...
Marek Styczen, Stanislaw Gomulka
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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BMC GeriatricsBackground Mental distress among retirees and older people is a severe public health challenge, and information on new risk groups is needed. This study aims to identify subgroups of old-age retirees with varying associations between low social support ...
Jere Lahelma +5 more
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Why the share of small amount pensions is so substantial in Latvia?
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 More than 70% of all old-age pensions in Latvia are smaller than 300 euro, which is close to the monetary value of the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. There is a number of reasons for it: the lack of non-contributory component and inadequately low minimum ...
Rajevska O., Rajevska F.
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Business: Theory and Practice, 2007 The author introduces the current extension of company pension schemes in Germany and explains the legal necessity for covering non-lapsable future pensions und payable pensions against insolvency of the employer, who is over- riding bound to pay the ...
Gerhard Mudrack
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Universal Pensions in Low Income Countries [PDF]
Most workers in developing countries have no access to pensions in old age. Well-intentioned reformers have concentrated on privatization, but this does nothing to expand coverage.
Larry Willmore
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Public sector employment in Scotland [November 2012] [PDF]
, 2012 Protest action against government cutbacks took place in October, and this, together with action over pay claims and changes to terms and conditions of employment, may well herald more action over the winter months.
Lockyer, Cliff
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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The importance of defined-benefit occupational pension schemes in selected OECD countries [PDF]
This paper discusses the role which (funded) defined benefit private sector occupational pension schemes play in national pensions in a sub-group of OECD countries.
Eich, Frank
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