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Health and Retirement of Older New Zealanders

Gorman, Emma; Scobie, Grant M; Towers, Andy - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2012

Increasing life expectancies and uncertainty about future retirement incomes are likely to lead to various changes in behaviour. As expectations are revised, one potentially important adjustment mechanism is in labour force participation rates. There is already evidence these are rising for...

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KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving

Law, David; Meehan, Lisa; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2011

KiwiSaver is a voluntary savings scheme aimed at increasing the retirement wealth of a target population. A critical element shaping the success of KiwiSaver is the extent to which individuals participate in the scheme, given its voluntary nature; and, having chosen to participate, the extent to...

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Healthy, Wealthy and Working: Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders

Enright, James; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2010

Health status is an important element in the decision to continue working or retire among older workers. Given the demographic projections for the next four decades, there will be increasing opportunities for older workers to remain in the workforce. However, an individual’s decision is likely...

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The Impact of Workplace and Personal Superannuation Schemes on Net Worth: Evidence from the Household Savings Survey

Scobie, Grant M; Le, Trinh - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

The central question addressed in this paper is: does having a workplace or personal superannuation scheme result in a higher level of accumulation for retirement? The paper presents a range of information about the participation and level of holdings in workplace and personal superannuation...

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Women’s Retirement Incomes in New Zealand: A Household Bargaining Approach

Gibson, John; Le, Trinh; Scobie, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

Bargaining models of household wealth accumulation point to a potential conflict of interest between husbands and wives. Since wives are typically younger than their husbands and have longer life expectancy, they have to finance a longer expected retirement period. Thus, it is argued that when...

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Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

Feldmann, Manuel; Lukes, Martin; Uhlaner, Lorraine - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 2, pp. 997-1013

gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …

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How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy

Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Sorgner, Alina; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 427-446

—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because … period, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture that can be regarded as an informal …

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Entrepreneurship, innovation, and human flourishing

Henrekson, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 511-528

(Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … achieved through a purposeless quest for wealth and material consumption, but rather through adventure, entrepreneurship, and … entrepreneurship are not merely the keys to economic growth, but to life satisfaction as well. This essay discusses topics in …

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National culture, entrepreneurship and economic development: different patterns across the European Union

Liñán, Francisco; Fernandez-Serrano, José - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 685-701

variable that helps explain the level of economic development and reinforces the effect of entrepreneurship on the income level … Entrepreneurship Monitor provides information regarding entrepreneurial activity. Using linear regression analysis, cultural and …

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New Zealand’s perfect storm of entrepreneurship and economic development

Frederick, Howard; Monsen, Erik - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 2, pp. 187-204

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