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How scarcity of certainty affects your cognitive functioning

Kajackaite, Agne - 2020

Beyond the many choices and challenges humans face during the pandemic lies a constant cognitive trade-off: Those who excessively absorb news against uncertainty run the risk of impaired cognitive functions.

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Public debt, population ageing and medium-term growth

Dieppe, Alistair (contributor); Guarda, Paolo (contributor) - 2015

This paper analyses the challenges that high public debt and ageing populations pose to medium-term growth. First … ageing on medium-term growth can be mitigated by structural reforms boosting labour force participation. Finally, general …

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Quality and cost-effectiveness in long-term care and dependency prevention: the Polish policy landscape

Golinowska, Stanisława; Sowa-Kofta, Agnieszka - 2017

With the population ageing the development of sustainable long-term care institutions is of great importance in many … years policy addressing ageing related problems was developed, focusing on the active ageing instruments. Dependency … prevention and active ageing are among goals of national policies formulated separately in the health and social sector …

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Pensions: five key decisions for the next government

Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; O'Brien, Laurence - 2024

addressing. The next government needs to take decisions on pensions which are not made easier by the pressures that an ageing …

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Health status, functional limitations and disability: Changes in Poland

Golinowska, Stanislawa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2012

The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities. This article contains an overview of the available data and indicators on...

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Alterung und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine Untersuchung zum Einfluss des Alters von Beschäftigten auf Produktivität, Innovation und Mobilität

Schneider, Lutz - 2011

The present study analyses the labour market effect of workers' ageing. Explicitly, the impact of age on productivity …

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Yksityinen varautuminen hoivan rahoitusta täydentämässä

Määttänen, Niku; Valkonen, Tarmo - 2020

Many elderly people in Finland could increase they standard of living and receive more freedom of choice regarding long-term care by releasing part of their housing equity. The possibility to purchase reasonably priced life annuities and long-term care insurance would increase the benefits of...

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Understanding pension saving among the self-employed

Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi - 2023

Private pension saving among the self-employed population in the UK has been falling dramatically over the last few decades, and this has led to a heightened policy focus on how to boost pension saving among this group. In this report we analyse patterns of private pension saving among the...

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Trends in pension saving among the long-term self-employed

Karjalainen, Heidi - 2023

The number of self-employed workers has been rising rapidly in the UK in recent decades. At the same time, private pension participation among this group has fallen sharply, leading to increasing concern among policymakers about the preparedness for retirement of self-employed workers. This...

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Who gives wealth transfers to whom and when? Patterns in the giving and receiving of lifetime gifts and loans

Boileau, Bee; Sturrock, David - 2023

This report gives a new and up-to-date picture of the giving and receiving of significant intergenerational wealth transfers during life, summarising the findings of two research papers. New data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) allow us to build a comprehensive picture of the flow of...

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