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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Old-age pension"”.
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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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The impact of the South African old age pension on the educational attainment of children
The South African old age pension is the largest cash transfer in the country and its reach extends far beyond the intended beneficiaries, having a significant impact on other household members. Given the prevalence of three and skip generational households in the country the effect that the …
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Senatvės pensijų užtikrinimo problematika bei iššūkiai gerovės ekonomikai Lietuvoje /
50 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables, 69 sources The main objective of this work is to examine the issues and challenges in ensuring old age pensions and their impact on economic welfare, aiming to understand their influence on societal well-being and economic sustainability. The tasks of this work are: …
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Exhuming insights: what burial records can tell us about the aged poor and emerging welfare provision in Limerick City, 1875 to 1925
… initiatives, with the evolving recognition of old age and older people as a welfare category providing the contextual framing. It specifically examines the impact of the Old Age Pension (1908) on the lives of older people in Limerick. The work was guided by two key research aims. Firstly, to …
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The Earnings Test and Work Patterns: Experiences of Canada and the United States
… the labor force participation rates among men ages 65-69 as a means of alleviating the long-term financial difficulties of the old-age pension program under social security. It is widely held that eliminating the earnings test will contribute to this goal because people respond to economic …
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'Who of us care to be seen assisting an old woman?': the institutional care of Ireland's elderly women, 1845 - 1908
… explores the institutional care of Irish women, aged fifty years or more, from 1845 to the introduction of the Old Age Pension in 1908. Moving beyond the experiences of the adolescent and young women, which have been explored by historians in recent years, this study introduces the aged …
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The Furrowed Face: the depiction of the elderly in painting, England and the United States, 1870-1910
Old age has always evoked diametrically opposed opinions. On the one hand, the elderly are respected, regarded as benevolent repositories of wisdom and comfort; on the other, they are considered as decrepit vestiges of life, who pointlessly linger on, wasting the world for the vibrant and useful. …
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Fiscal redistribution, poverty, and inequality in Botswana
… and inequality. Using the most recent household surveys, data and measurement challenges are evaluated applying established national and international measures. The research expands on related studies for Botswana and contributes to the internationally comparable fiscal incidence literature …
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Essays on Pension Policies and Temptation Preferences
… retirement incomes, namely the Australian old age pension and mandatory retirement saving through superannuation. Using an overlapping generations model for a small open economy, I investigate the effect of introducing an adjustable (non-linear) taper rate to a means-tested public age …
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The Civil War Pension System and the Nineteenth-Century American State
The Civil War pension system was the most comprehensive social policy in the nineteenth-century United States, and one of the most ambitious in the industrializing world. By the time the Civil War closed in April 1865, the U.S. Army had mustered more than two million men. Nearly four hundred …
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Three essays on Brazilian social security policies, education and labor market
… to work because they lack social security coverage. I analyze the Brazilian disability insurance system, searching for possible incentives created by the system. The empirical analysis will be based on the system’s rule that only formal-economy workers are covered, taking advantage of the …
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Socioeconomic related health inequalities in South Africa
… relationship is causal. To do so, we use the Old Age Pension (OAP) programme as a natural experiment. The OAP is based on age eligibility. Therefore, we use this age eligibility as an exogenous income shock to isolate the effect of income on health. We apply a Regression Discontinuity Design …
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Social Security under Decentralized Authoritarianism: Politics of The Public Pension Program in China
… puzzles through a detailed study of the urban pension program for enterprise employees in authoritarian China. The decentralized fiscal and administrative structure in China makes the operation of the pension program a particularly challenging one. What are the redistributive incentives of the …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… terms of both renewal success rates (which average to a strikingly low rate of 72 percent in my sample) and time-it-takes to renew an identification card. The causal effect of information technologies on public service delivery is estimated using two different identification strategies. In the …