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Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age : A Random Effects Model
Bloemen, Hans - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the jobexit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker’s characteristics thatalso determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of...
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Grundeinkommen ohne Arbeit : auf dem Weg zu einer kommunikativen Gesellschaft
Büchele, Herwig; Wohlgenannt, Lieselotte - 1985 - 2. Aufl.
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Partnership in Pensions? Responses to the Pensions Green Paper
Agulnik, Phil; Barr, Nicholas A.; Falkingham, Jane; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
changes to the UK’sretirement income system. Members of CASE and of the Department ofSocial Policy at LSE have looked at the … likely implications of the reformsfor pensioner poverty, income security in old age, economic growth, theNational Insurance … offercontributors complete income security in retirement due to uncertaintiesabout investment returns, annuity rates and future …
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Welfare Reform and LoneMothers’ Employment inthe US
Waldfogel, Jane; Danziger, Sandra K.; Danziger, Sheldon; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act(PRWORA) of 1996 represents a dramatic change in the US welfare state.One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with youngchildren, from welfare to work. Early evidence suggests that, in concertwith a strong...
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Thatcherism, New Labour and the Welfare State
Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
This paper examines the extent to which the policies towards thewelfare state pursued by the Labour Government in its first fifteenmonths represent a break with those of its Conservativepredecessor and with earlier policies put forward by Labour inopposition. Four key parts of its inheritance...
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Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
The principal aim of Section F of the British Association is to show how economicanalysis can be applied to illuminate important issues of public concern. The themefor the 1997 Section F Meeting of “Equality and Opportunity” surely satisfied thiscriterion. The subject matter is highly...
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Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity:Lessons From Abroad
Dickson, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Martin Evans has examined the organisation, targeting and implementation ofwelfare to work programmes in five countries: the UK, France, Germany,Netherlands and the USA. His study focussed on the different definitions of targetpopulations for welfare to work abroad and how their programmes were...
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Welfare to work and the organisation of opportunity
Evans, Martin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Welfare to work policy is central to British reforms of itswelfare state and social security system. We are not alonein our desire to assist unemployed and other claimants tofind and retain work. It is therefore important to be able tolook to other countries and consider lessons that could...
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Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy
Midgley, James; Stewart, Kitty; Piachaud, David; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means tested...
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