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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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Fourier-cosine method for insurance risk theory
, 2015 In this thesis, a systematic study is carried out for effectively approximating Gerber-Shiu functions under L´evy subordinator models. It is a hardly touched topic in the recent literature and our approach is via the popular Fourier-cosine method. In theory, classical Gerber-Shiu functions can be expressed in terms of an infinite sum of convolutions ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
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Elements of risk theory in finance and insurance
Eléments de théorie du risque en finance et assurance Cette thèse traite de la théorie du risque en finance et en assurance. La mise en pratique du concept de comonotonie, la dépendance du risque au sens fort, est décrite pour identifier l’optimum de Pareto et les allocations individuellement rationnelles Pareto optimales, la ...
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Long Dated Life Insurance and Pension Contracts [PDF]
We discuss the "life cycle model" by first introducing a credit market with only biometric risk, and then market risk is introduced via risky securities.
Aase, Knut K.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson +6 more
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Bank deposit insurance and business cycles: controlling the volatility of risk-based premiums [PDF]
Proposals to make deposit insurance risk-based need to consider how premiums would fluctuate over the business cycle. This paper derives a new deposit insurance contract that has the following three features: 1) it is fairly priced in the sense that the ...
George G. Pennacchi
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