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Active Citizens and Retirement Planning: Enlarging Freedom of Choice in the Course of Pension Reforms in Nordic Countries and Germany
Hinrichs, Karl - 2004
One feature of recent pension reforms in OECD countries has been that more individual responsibility is transferred to employees and in particular to those approaching the end of their working life. Enlarged freedom of choice concerns the timing of retirement with corresponding consequences for...
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Institutional and financial framework for job rotation in nine European countries
Schömann, Klaus; Mytzek, Ralf; Gülker, Silke - 1998
Job rotation as an important element of labour market policy has only a rather short tradition in most Member States of the European Union, except in the scandinavian countries. The transnational partnership job rotation was founded at the end of 1995 and financing for job rotation projects came...
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Altersteilzeit: Erfahrungen und Diskussionen in Deutschland und anderen EU-Ländern
Lindecke, Christiane; Voss-Dahm, Dorothea; Lehndorff, … - 2007
Arbeitszeit senken - umgesetzt wurde.Die Erfahrungen mit graduellen Ausstiegspfaden und besonders der Altersteilzeit in Schweden …, Finnland, Dänemark und den Niederlanden geben einen Einblick in die Such- und Experimentierprozesse in anderen europäischen … Schweden wird allerdings deutlich, dass Regulierungen für den graduellen Ausstieg auch in die entgegengesetzte Richtung wirken …
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The labour markets in Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, and Sweden 2006-2010
Klinger, Sabine; Spitznagel, Eugen; Alatalo, Johanna; … - 2012
zurückliegenden Jahren. Beispielhaft skizzieren Finnland, Deutschland, Lettland, Norwegen und Schweden den Ausgangspunkt und die …
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Two worlds of retirement income: A comparative analysis of retirement-income outcomes using the Luxembourg Income Study
Lomax, Kevin; Gran, Brian - 2003
This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...
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Is mothers' employment an effective means to fight family poverty? Empirical evidence from seven European countries
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje; Orsini, Kristian - 2003
Using data from the mid-1990s from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we analyze for several household types the effect of mothers' work participation on families' relative income position and poverty risk. Results are compared across seven European countries with contrasting family policies:...
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Families at the margins of the welfare state: A comparative study on the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance
Kuivalainen, Susan - 2005
The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance...
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Poverty and income maintenance in old age: A cross-national view of low income older women
Smeeding, Timothy M.; Sandstrom, Susanna - 2005
Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older women are much higher than those for older men and much...
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Inequality in household income: A cross-country inter-industry analysis
Waddoups, Jeffrey - 2004
This study explores the plausibility of extending research on income inequality to incorporate relative living standards based on household head's industry of employment. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study is used to assess the relative level and movement of per capita disposable household...
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