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Pension funds' performance in strongly regulated industries in Central Europe: Evidence from Poland and Hungary [PDF]
This paper presents an analysis of pension funds' performance in Poland and Hungary, two Central European countries characterized by strong regulation of their private pension fund industries.
Bohl, Martin T. +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Real Returns of Private Pension Funds in Colombia
Cuadernos de Administración, 2019 On the performance of the private pensions system in Colombia, Individual Savings Regime with Solidarity - RAIs (per its acronym in Spanish), the results are often highlighted in terms of profitability; a thesis upheld by the fund Managers industry. In order to evaluate how significant the real returns generated by this scheme have actually been, from ...
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Private pension funds in Argentina's newintegrated pension system [PDF]
Argentina implemented a major reform of its pension system in 1994. The new system has a mixed public-and-private two-pillar structure. Its main elements are an unfunded, defined benefit pillar operated by the state and paying a basic pension to all ...
Vittas, Dimitri
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Supplementary Pension Funds in Hungary [PDF]
Hungary has about ten years history of pension privatization process and the Hungarian experience could be really instructive. This paper is focused on the supplementary pensions trying to prove that no kind of reform of state pension system is able to ...
Matits, Agnes
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Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
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Innovative investments, natural resources, and intergenerational fairness : are pension funds good for sustainable development? [PDF]
We analyse long-term consumption paths in a dynamic two-sector economy with overlapping generations. Each young generation saves for the retirement age, both with private savings and pension funds.
Karen Pittel, Lucas Bretschger
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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