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Pensions: A Complex Landscape [PDF]

Pension reforms have been high on the political agenda in many developed countries over recent years and pension issues have been discussed intensely in the public as a result.
Eich, Frank, Swarup, Amarendra
core  

Product churn, tastes, and price indices

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Price indices commonly used to measure inflation do not account for the entry and exit of products nor for systemic changes in consumer preferences over time. Recent developments in the theory of price indices show that these issues have significant impacts on the growth of prices that consumers experience.
Hao Lan, Tim Lloyd, Steve McCorriston, Cesar Revoredo‐Giha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalising (on) industrial epidemics: examining the influence of the 'Big Three' asset managers on corporate governance in key health-harming commodity industries. [PDF]

Global Health
Wood B, Slater S, Friel S, Schram A, Frank N, Sacks G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Efficiency of Private Pension Funds in Poland

AESTIMATIO, 2015
Krzysztof Kompa, Dorota Witkowska
openaire   +1 more source

Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
wiley   +1 more source

Justification trajectories for pension inequality in Chile (2016-2023): the role of social class and beliefs in meritocracy. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Castillo JC, Canales-Sellés R, Laffert A, Urzúa T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Health financing policies for aging populations: a comparative study of seven countries. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Nayebi BA, Yaghoubi R, Najafi B, Khodayari-Zarnaq R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of occupational pension funds in Mauritius [PDF]

Mauritius belongs to a select group of developing countries where contractual savings-savings with insurance companies and pension funds-exceed 40 percent of GDP and represent a major potential force in the local financial system.
Vittas, Dimitri
core  

The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
wiley   +1 more source