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Costa Rican pension system : options for reform [PDF]

The Costa Rican Social Insurance Fund - the country's main social security institution - was established in 1941 to provide compulsory social insurance coverage for employees, through old-age, disability, and survivor pensions, as well as sickness and ...
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Schwarz, Anita
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Herbivore and mesocarnivore carcasses trigger divergent short‐term changes in soil properties

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Scavengers reshape nutrient cycles in soils under carrion. Compared to herbivore carcasses, smaller but longer‐lasting carnivore remains boost nutrient levels and microbial activity in dry soils. Abstract Animal corpses act as pulses of organic matter (OM) and serve a key zoogeochemical role by providing localized nutrient inputs to soils and thereby ...
Adrián Colino‐Barea, Fuensanta García‐Orenes, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Moisés Gonzálvez, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Marcos Moleón, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Evan A. N. Marks, Minerva García‐Carmona, Victoria Arcenegui, José Carlos Huerta‐del‐Bosque, Adrián Orihuela‐Torres, Santiago Soliveres, Sofia Albolafio, Esther Sebastián‐González, José Antonio Sánchez‐Zapata   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sources of income are associated with all-cause mortality risk in older people: results from the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey (CLHLS). [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Liu L, Ban C, Ruan H, Wang Z, Yao Y, He S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Underreported earnings and age-specific income redistribution in post-socialist economies [PDF]

We analyze underreported earnings and age-specific income redistribution in postsocialist economies. Pensions, other transfers and public expenditures are financed from contributions and wage taxes, respectively.
Andras Simonovits
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Great (Retirement) Expectations: A Review of Retirement Income Policy and Changes to Expected and Preferred Retirement Age of Australian Workers

Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Retirement age expectations and preferences are shaped by individual, social, and government policy influences. Our paper reviews major policy changes in the Australian Retirement Income System over the past two decades and documents changes in Australian workers' expected and preferred retirement age. Research Findings/
Paul Gerrans, Ingebjorg Kristoffersen, Joanne K. Earl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways into and out of temporary disability retirement: an 8-year sequence analysis study in Finland. [PDF]

Eur J Public Health
Polvinen A, Riekhoff AJ, Perhoniemi R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Italy: The Search for a Sustainable PAYG Pension System [PDF]

During the 1990s the reform of the pension system had been at the core of the effort to consolidate Italian public finances and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability.
Franco, Daniele
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
wiley   +1 more source

Pension levels of chinese institutions during the transition period: A case study of universities. [PDF]

PLoS One
Lu XJ, Zhuang QX.
europepmc   +1 more source

Actuarial-Based Public Pension Systems [PDF]

, 2006
openaire   +1 more source