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Political Change and Social Policy in Taiwan : Natinal Health Insurance and Pension as Examples
Chou, Yi-Chun - 2002
Ideologies about social policy. The national Health Insurance in 1995 and the Plan for the Pension are the clear examples for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476260
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State-aided promotion of life insurances as part of the individual pension plan. A comparison of the developments in Great Britain and Germany in respect to the National Insurance
Rüttler, Axel Thomas - 2003
) that may be utilized as part of individual pension plans. The developments in Great Britain and in Germany are compared …, economic regime and retirement pension7 State-aided promotion in Germany8 State-aided promotion in Great Britain9 Findings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450192
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Possible Solutions to the Rhode Island State Government’s Unfunded Pension Liability
Blunt, Derek - 2010
This paper examines the possible causes of the nationwide unfunded public pension liability problem in the U.S., and …’ pension systems, a specific analysis of the Rhode Island public pension system will be conducted. Through this investigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450209
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Empirical Analyses on Federal Thrift Savings Plan Portfolio Optimization
Nestler, Scott T - 2007
There is ample historical data to suggest that log returns of stocks and indices are not independent and identically distributed Normally, as is commonly assumed. Instead, the returns of financial assets are skewed and have higher kurtosis. To account for skewness and excess kurtosis, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450764
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Designing Pension Programs to Strengthen Formal Labor Markets in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia
Widjaja, Muliadi - 2008
Despite abundant studies of the application of pension systems in developed countries, little work has been done on how … to apply a sustainable pension system in developing countries. The set-up of pension systems in developed countries and … (taxes and subsidies) on firms and labor. This research develops a comprehensive system on how to set-up pension policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463374
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Commencing Self Directed Learning to Heutagogy Skill in Lieu of Spiritual Entrepreneurship
Hia, Ahmad Kultur; Komariah, Aan; Kurniady, Dedy Achmad; … - 2018
The problems faced by the retirement age group are increasingly complex. Declining productivity, income and welfare. The transition period from the productive workforce to the gray entrepreneurship has not been followed by an optimal learning process. The research objective is to obtain an...
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Analysis of corporate acquisitions by medical device manufacturers
DeGraaff, Robert A - 2006
This doctoral thesis draws on the financial economics, strategic management, product innovation, and health technology literatures to investigate and explain conditions under which corporate acquisitions in the medical device industry have enhanced or eroded shareholder wealth and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438806
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Price regulation, capital market imperfections, and strategic R&D investment behavior in the pharmaceutical industry: Consequences for innovation
Vernon, John Andrew - 2003
The research in this thesis focuses on the pharmaceutical R&D investment decision. The two primary hypotheses I test are that: (1) capital market imperfections in the market for pharmaceutical R&D finance impart a lower cost of capital to internal funds relative to external debt and equity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439232
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Information for decision making from imperfect national data: tracking major changes in health care use in Kenya using geostatistics
Gething, Peter W.; Noor, Abdisalan M.; Goodman, Catherine A. - 2007
Background: Most Ministries of Health across Africa invest substantial resouces in some form of health management information system (HMIS) to coordinate the routine acquisition and compilation of monthly treatment and attendance records from health facilities nationwide. Despite the expense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441397
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Lessons from the Business Sector for Successful Knowledge Management in Health Care: A Systematic Review
Kothari, Anita; Hovanec, Nina; Hastie, Robyn; Sibbald, … - 2011
BACKGROUND: The concept of knowledge management has been prevalent in the business sector for decades. Only recently has knowledge management been receiving attention by the health care sector, in part due to the ever growing amount of information that health care practitioners must handle. It...
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