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Protecting against unexpected yield curve, inflation, and longevity shifts are some of the most critical issues institutional and private investors must solve when managing post-retirement income benefits. This paper empirically investigates the performance of alternative immunization strategies...
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The research determines the level of financial risk in the Russian healthcare system and identifies prospects for improving the current Russian practice of financial risk management in healthcare when providing high-tech medical care for sustainable development (using Russia as an example). The...
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a poverty trap mechanism exacerbating financial exclusion, hence resulting in significant losses for both the individual …
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, poverty, and GDP significantly affect fraud proliferation. Political stability is appraised to be the most scoring determinant …
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This paper examines the poverty perceptions of retired women by assessing the extent to which demographic … characteristics, economic considerations, household adequacy levels and satisfaction measures influence perceptions of poverty. Based … characteristics (first level variables) were assessed relative to the respondents' poverty perceptions. Thereafter, economic …
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poverty for retiree people is high, especially for women who often work part-time. The research presented in this paper … conclusion is the need to limit the platform's scope to old-age pension only (e.g., excluding survivors' or disability pensions …
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Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended by discretion during economic slumps. In a model that features temporary benefits and sequential job opportunities, a worker's reservation wages are studied when policymakers...
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The regulation on the Belgian occupational pension schemes has been recently changed. The new law allows for employers to choose between two different types of guarantees to offer to their affiliates. In this paper, we address the question arising naturally: which of the two guarantees is the...
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Low saving rates combined with low effective retirement age herald old-age poverty. This paper examines the preferred …
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Managing unemployment is one of the key issues in social policies. Unemployment insurance schemes are designed to cushion the financial and morale blow of loss of job but also to encourage the unemployed to seek new jobs more proactively due to the continuous reduction of benefit payments. In...
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