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This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income … employ the Luxembourg Income Study to compare Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. This study … retirement-income systems of Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, however, tend to be older than age 75. Some experts …
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Thanks to recent reforms, projections suggest that public pension expenditure as a share of GDP might be no higher in 2060 than in 2013 for the EU. However, the adequacy of pensions is also important; if reforms leave an increasing number of older citizens without adequate incomes, they will...
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When policy discussions turn to income provisions for the old-aged, the focus is often on Social Security programs and … the long-term solvency of national public pension systems. While Social Security remains the most important income source … individual pensions as a crucial part of their retirement income. The paper gives an account of relevant social and legal …
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largest part of their retirement income. It focuses next on core SPI features: How benefits are calculated; important changes … empirical data showing the evolution of different, old-age income sources since the 1990s. This institutional description shows … benefit future generations of pensioners. Thus, those most affected by welfare state changes in relation to old-age pensions …
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income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income …'s deep recession in the 1990s. Instead, relatively, pensioners fared better than the working age population. On the other …
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availability of STEM workforce should (or not) be regarded as a growth restriction for the Brazilian ICT sector. Results point out …
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This research paper explores the issue of gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the satisfaction and … Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts. Gender discrimination in workforce was measured through independent samples-t test. The …
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In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
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generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
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generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
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