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Rebuilding China’s Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters
Pei, Minxin - eSocialSciences - 2005
China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of this reform, surveys the progress of China’s pension reform, describes its principal...
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China: Pension Provision and Pension Administration
Wang, Shaoguang - eSocialSciences - 2006
In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole country, just as most of other countries do. In the short term, however, it is feasible for China to establish only a province-based pension system, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341839
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Private (Occupational) Pensions in China: A Note on Recent Developments
Hu, Yu-Wei - eSocialSciences - 2005
China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not able to cope with the rapid ageing population. The Chinese government is well aware of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487668
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Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...
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Creating Youth Employment in Asia
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2014
, social protection programmes, fair migration and indirect policies like pro employment macro policies. …
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily; McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - eSocialSciences - 2013
international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945224
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater … resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the … study assessed the multifactorial drivers of migration. [IGC Working Paper]. …
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Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Informal Economy in India: Trends, Initiatives and Challenges
Dhanya M.B - eSocialSciences - 2013
This work examines the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 and 182. The study also tries to identify various gaps in the existing data base of the informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945260
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India Migration Bibliography
Tumbe, Chinmay - eSocialSciences - 2013
The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of … internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides … considerable interest to academics and non-academics working on migration related issues. [SSRN]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945365
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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go … rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945416