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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

open access: yesBritish 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

Pension funds and the secondary private equity market in Brazil: a study of Petros and Previ transactions

open access: yesRevista Ambiente Contábil
Purpose: This study analyzes the sale of shares in the secondary market of a portfolio of Private Equity Funds (FIPs) held by two Closed-Entity Pension Funds (EFPC) or pension funds, Petros and Previ, in 2019 and 2021, respectively, to highlight the ...
William Phillip Fernandes Santos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research of the investment results of pension savings

open access: yesУправление, 2018
This article makes a research of current trends in the investment of pension savings of citizens, transferred to the trust management of the state management company Vnesheconombank, non-state pension funds and private management companies for the period
G. F. Fatkhlislamova
doaj   +1 more source

Corporate Sustainability Transition: Methodological Analysis for a Rating Model

open access: yesCorporate 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latin American private pension funds’ vulnerabilities [PDF]

open access: yesEconomia Mexicana NUEVA EPOCA, 2011
In the last years, we have been witnesses of significant large rates of return in most Latin-American private pension fund institutions (PPF). This outstanding performance of funds can be explained by an economic boom in the region. However, these funds have lately been hampered in some countries, something that contrasts with the successful ...
openaire   +1 more source

Pension Fund Capitalism and Financial Crisis. IHS Political Science Series 126, December 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Basic public pension schemes and cut backs in earnings-related public pensions led to an increasing role of supplementary pensions such as pension funds for old-age incomes.
Wiß, Tobias
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesEuropean 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

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

open access: yesEkonomika, 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   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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