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How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg, Girma Berhanu, Lena Fridlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Sustainability Transition: Methodological Analysis for a Rating Model

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a new rating model for the evaluation of corporate sustainability, addressing the inconsistencies and divergences that characterize current ESG assessment systems. The model is hierarchically structured, comprising 99 indicators organized into 19 modules, and is designed to be adaptable by sector and firm size.
Riccardo Censi, Paola Campana, Fulvio Schettino, Chiara De Pucchio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mind the gap: inheritance and inequality in retirement wealth

Intergenerational Justice Review, 2020
Drawing on detailed German panel data, we find that gifts and inheritances substantially increase households’ private pension savings in accounts which are costly or impossible to withdraw prematurely.
Lukas Brenner, Oscar A. Stolper
doaj   +3 more sources

Failure in Fully Funded Pensions: Voluntary Exchange and Coercion

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Private pension failure for much of the economics mainstream would be regarded as an artifact of markets that are insufficiently regulated, such that suppliers are able to exploit monopoly advantages, and are free to make serious errors of judgment ...
Mark Hyde, Jonathan Moizer, Jonathan Lean, Sue Farrar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

II pillar pension funds: how the selection of fund influences the size of the old-age pension

Ekonomika, 2015
The government, in order to achieve the welfare of the citizens in the retirement age to keep pace with the working people, carried out the various pension systems transformations.
Viktorija Rabikauskaitė, Lina Novickytė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
wiley   +1 more source

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice, Katharina Zimmermann   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coordonate ale reformei sistemului de pensii. Cazul României

Revista Transilvană de Ştiinţe Administrative, 2007
The reform of the pension systems has become a necessity in most of countries, as the public pension plans are not capable of ensuring a decent pension for the elderly.
Daniela Georgeta BEJU
doaj  

Necessary HRM Practices for Extended Working Lives in Tight and Loose Societies: A Comparative Perspective

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aging workforce demands evidence‐based human resource practices that lengthen working lives. Building on the Conservation of Resources theory (Hobfoll 1989), we investigate which organizational practices are indispensable for expanding older workers' occupational future time perspective (OFTP)—people's perceived opportunities and remaining
Eduardo Oliveira, Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria Van der Heijden, Julia Sabrina Finsel, Hila Axelrad, Eva Derous, Xiuzhu Gu, Izabela Marzec, Reidar Johan Mykletun, Michela Vignoli, Sofija Pajic, Anne Marit Wöhrmann, Jürgen Deller   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source