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The impact of institutions on firms’ rejuvenation policies: Early retirement with severance pay versus simple lay-off. A Cross-European Analysis
Fischer, Justina AV; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Early retirement of workers is used by firms as means to rejuvenate their workforces. In principle, workers can either simply be laid off or can be offered an early retirement option combined with a financial bonus. However, dismissing masses of older workers may be detrimental to social peace...
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A global view on demographic pressure and labour market participation
Groot, Loek; Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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Pension Insurance Cohesive Testing System
Arzybaev, Askarbek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Many public pension systems worldwide are experiencing difficult economic period as its economy is in the period of financial crisis which affected to the social budget sustainability. Population aging and last decade economic circumstances are the factors the pension systems should overcome for...
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The Impact of Social Security on Household Welfare: Evidence from a Transition Country
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
including contributory pensions and social allowances on consumption expenditure of receiving households, and subsequently … investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social … allowances increase expenditure of households, especially expenditure on non-food consumption. Pensions have a higher effect on …
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Toereikendheid van het pensioen en budgettaire kosten van de vergrijzing - evaluatie van beleidsmaatregelen en van alternatieve scenario’s/Adéquation des pensions et coût budgétair...
de Vil, Greet; Dekkers, gijs; Desmet, Raphaël; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since the early 90's, the Federal Planning Bureau assesses the sustainability of pensions in Belgium. Since a couple of … years, it uses a dynamic microsimulation model, MIDAS_BE, to assess the development of the adequacy of pensions. This …
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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Immigration and Social Benefits in a Mediterranean Welfare State: The Case of Spain
Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; Antón, José-Ignacio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of immigration on the Spanish Welfare State nowadays. Using two different household surveys, both the reception of state cash transfers and the use of public health care insurance by nationals and immigrants are analysed. Controlling by observable...
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A regional multiplier approach to estimating the impact of cash transfers: The case of cash aid in rural Malawi
Davies, Simon; Davey, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyses the impact on the local economy of an emergency cash transfer programme in rural Malawi. The results are of interest given the growing use of cash transfers as development aid as well as the increasing popularity of such transfers as a form of social protection across...
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IMPACT of Cash Transfer Programs on School Attendance and Child Poverty: An Ex-ante Simulation for Sri Lanka
KUMARA, Ajantha Sisira; PFAU, Wade Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
For countries assessing whether to implement a cash transfer program, an ex-ante evaluation is vital to assess its potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programs on school attendance and poverty among Sri Lankan children. We find that cash transfer...
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Education Transfers, expenditures and child labour supply in Indonesia: An evaluationof impacts and flypaper effects
Sumarto, Sudarno; de Silva, Indunil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper we investigate how the receipt of educational transfers, scholarships and related assistance programmes affects the labour supply of children and the marginal spending behaviour of households on children’s educational goods. We use a nationally representative household survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107474