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future development of state pensions, arguing that their combined effect is to restore something like a flat rate state … contribution records. This leaves a choice for the remaining sixth of National Insurance benefits: to separate out state pensions …
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This article outlines the recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, and the data and analysis on which they were … system. The Commission concluded that without reform, structural problems with UK pensions would lead to increasingly … have now largely been adopted by the UK government, imply eventual increases both in state spending on pensions as a share …
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interviews with individuals from a wide range of organisations active in the pensions market for these companies to shed light on … employed. We find that many finance directors are sceptical of the benefits of providing pensions for their employees and … providers are reluctant to promote pensions in companies where they perceive the management to be unsupportive and where there …
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This paper examines the performance of personal pensions (exempt unit trusts) in the UK 1980-2000. Unitised personal …
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While Southern European countries have pursued a series of pension reforms since the early 1990s, significant variation arises across them. Focusing on the concept of political replacement risk (the probability of a government being electorally punished for pursuing a given policy) and the...
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from pensions and absorbed within other working age social security, or the scope of National Insurance could be maintained …
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The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining...
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The shadow economy and tax evasion are both widespread in Greece. This has adverse effects in terms of horizontal and vertical equity, as well as in terms of efficiency. We take advantage of access to a large sample of income tax returns in 2004/05, and compare tax reported incomes with those...
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combination of Burtless (1999) and DiNardo et al. (1996), two different microsimulation methods for decomposing inequality. By …
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