Urban Healthy Ageing in Romania: Policy Options for Age-Friendly Cities and Long-Term Care Reform. [PDF]
Corman S.
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Idiosyncratic asset return and wage risk of US households
Abstract This paper documents the degree of idiosyncratic asset return heterogeneity, serial correlation, and correlation with wage heterogeneity for US households. Novel panel‐data measurements for returns on household assets are proposed. Sizable transitory idiosyncratic return heterogeneity is documented to exist concurrently with permanent ...
Stephen Snudden
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Segmented paths, shared beliefs? Employment histories and welfare preferences in Chile. [PDF]
Biehl A, Cabib I, González Ide A.
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The role of foreign capital flows in health finance
Abstract This study develops an open economy version of the health deficit model to examine how rising health expenditures affect international capital flows, external balances, and welfare. The government issues bonds in international capital markets, linking health policy to international financial dynamics.
Mark Christopher Kelly
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'It's like a Gordian knot' - the management of patients with persistent postconcussion symptoms in general practice: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Schrøder ASH, Rytter HM.
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This paper focuses on the comparison of financial performance of the Czech voluntary private pension scheme with five other reformed private pension schemes in the region of Central Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic).
Jan Hlaváč
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Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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Analysis of the efficiency and influencing factors of the urban and rural residents social endowment insurance in China: from the perspective of regional heterogeneity. [PDF]
Dai A, Hu Y, Xie H, Zhao W, Keskin B.
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Why don’t Latvian pension funds diversify more internationally?
Latvian employees have to choose a pension fund for the second-pillar of the Latvian pension system. These pension funds invest about 85% in domestic assets. In this paper, we address the question why this strong home bias might exist.
Swinkels, L.A.P., Vejina, D., Vilans, R.
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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith +8 more
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