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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"‘On Old Age’"”.
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Happiness and Public Spending : The Impact of Government Expenditure Composition on Life Satisfaction
This thesis adopts a multidimensional approach to studying the composition of public expenditure and its association with subjective well-being across 25 EU countries from 2004 to 2016. Using a balanced panel dataset, the analysis investigates how total level of public spending, its different …
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The role of old women in Zulu culture : with special reference to three tribes in the district of Nkandla
Old age is a neglected area of anthropological research despite the widespread interest in the human life cycle that has characterized much work within the discipline.- With the notable exception of the early pioneering work of Simmons, the anthropological literature on old age in preliterate …
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Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute
Abstract This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in …
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Old age pension as a means of poverty alleviation in Lesotho
This study seeks to investigate the impact of the old age pension in Lesotho in alleviating poverty among the elderly people and its impact to promote their well-being. Most of the elderly people depend on the social security pensions because they lack opportunities to advance themselves socially …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. The first chapter looks at whether the Social Security claiming behavior of husbands respond to the presence of Social Security spouse and survivor benefits paid to wives based on his earnings record. I separately estimate the …
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Old Age in Venice and the Terraferma, c.1550-1700
… was and is ordinarily characterised as a gerontocracy, governed by elderly noblemen. While the key role of age – especially old age, vecchiezza – in structuring the political life of the city is familiar, historians have overlooked how old age was defined and what it meant outside of elite …