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Evaluating the possible impact of pension reforms on future living standards in Europe

Grech, Aaron George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Successive reforms enacted since the 1990s have dramatically changed Europe’s pensions landscape. This paper tries to assess the impact of recent reforms on the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, using estimates of pension wealth for a number of hypothetical...

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How best to measure pension adequacy

Grech, Aaron George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the fore. As yet, there does not seem to be a broad consensus in policymaking circles and...

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Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe

Grech, Aaron George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Spurred by the ageing transition, many governments have made wide-ranging reforms, dramatically changing Europe …

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Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries

Coast, Ernestina; Leone, Tiziana; Hirose, Atsumi; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Our search of 12 databases yielded 2202 articles, of which 47 items from 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight...

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Sex in older age in rural Malawi

Freeman, Emily; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

this setting as a field in which broader understandings of ageing, aged identities, and conceptions of person- or adulthood … ageing body was constructed as a weakened body, incompatible with understandings of adulthood based on physical productivity … constructions of ageing and sex can influence complex experiences of marital and non-marital sex in older age. We contribute to …

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Employment duration and shifts into retirement in the EU

Aranki, Ted; Macchiarelli, Corrado - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

According to Principal-Agent theory, states (the principal) delegate the implementation of a legalized agreement to an international organization (the agent). The conventional wisdom about states’ capacity to control international organizations is that differences among the member states...

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Immigrants at retirement: stay/return or 'va-et-vient'?

De Coulon, Augustin; Wolff, François-Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

where labour considerations no longer matter, the location decisions are expected to depend not only on a comparison of standard-of-living between the origin and host countries, but should also be affected by the strength of family relationships. Assuming that migrants derive some satisfaction...

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Pension policy in EU25 and its possible impact on elderly poverty

Zaidi, Asghar; Grech, Aaron George; Fuchs, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper reviews changes in pension policies in EU countries between 1995 and 2005 and describes how they might affect risk of poverty for future pensioner populations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed considerably in the past decade and the paper highlights commonalities as well as...

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Transition from work to retirement in EU25

Zaidi, Asghar; Makovec, Mattia; Fuchs, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The policy agenda of extending working lives requires a holistic understanding of factors underlying the decision of older workers to withdraw from work and to retire. This brief paper presents employment patterns and trends of older people across EU Member States and identifies policy...

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Can the retirement-consumption puzzle be resolved?: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.

Smith, Sarah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey to shed further light on the fall in spending at retirement (the “retirement-consumption puzzle”). Comparing food spending for men retiring involuntarily early (through ill health or redundancy) with spending for those who retire...

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