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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Pension Reform"”.
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An Analysis of the Legal Obstacles to State Pension Reform
<p>Public pension systems are underfunded, straining state budgets. Historically, many states have presumed that they can modify pension benefits only as to newly-hired employees, and that they must leave benefit accruals untouched for current workers. More recently, though, states have begun …
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The politics of pension reform : New York State 1971-76.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Quantitative Insights into Pension Reform in Emerging Economies: The Case of Vietnam.
… study aims to quantitatively analyse various pension reform scenarios that target both formal and informal workers differently. Chapter 2 sheds light on the impact of sectoral labour choices on household consumption and welfare. Using propensity score matching method as the main approach, we …
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Experimenting With Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Parties, Coalitions, and Policies
… configurations of the party system and specific reform results. In addition, I utilize roll call analyses of voting in the Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak legislatures to provide a more precise estimation of policy dimensions, parties' spatial positions, legislators' ideal points, and the formation …
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Some Economic Implications of the Pension Reform Act of 1974 for Fixed Benefit Pension Plans
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:17:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7915353.pdf: 11539525 bytes, checksum: c50d133425651fedcfadb5a56bab8d58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The Political Economy of U.S. Public Pension Plans and Their Unfunded Liabilities
… choice approach to the problem of unfunded pension liabilities and adopts the methodology of Congleton and Shughart (1990) to model underfunding of state-level public pension plans using the median voter theorem, along with the theory of "capture" by special interest groups, and a combined …
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Existence Impacts of Retirement Saving Programs under Heterogeneous Hyperbolic Agents
… Increasing pressure on the current public pension system in Europe has raised new questions for consumption-saving analysis concerning retirement saving. Several studies using the tools of the conventional economics give answers how the transition from the current system to a new tolerable …
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Comparative Public Finance: Sustainability and Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms
… particularly to the efficacy of countries’ pension systems. This dissertation examines the context and trajectory of pension reforms in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Its contribution is to ascertain the viability and political feasibility of reforms that enhance the …
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Rediscovering Demography. How research, politics, and the media built awareness around the “aging society” in Germany
… of a larger policy-related debate, such as pension or health care reform. Thereafter, population aging began to be viewed as a separate issue to be addressed. Documents from research, policy, and print media are collected from 1966-1997 to identify how aging was contextualized and how these …
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Engendering pensions: Gender assessment of pension system reforms in Mongolia
Gender equality is a key issue in the design of pension systems given the distinctive life courses of women, the unequal distribution of unpaid work responsibilities in the family that influence access to participation in gendered labour markets, the greater likelihood of broken work practices, …
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The Politics of Pensions in Ireland
Where power lies in the politics of pensions in Ireland is the central research question guiding this research. Working within a power orientated theoretical framework that links actors and ideas with an institutional analysis, an evaluation of half a century of pension policy is conducted. The …
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Essays on genetic variation and economic behavior
… also extend to the field. Following a major pension reform in the late 1990s, all Swedish adults had to form a portfolio from a large menu of funds. Matching individual investment decisions to the Swedish Twin Registry, the paper finds that approximately 25% of individual variation in …
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Path Dependency or Path Creation? Transitions in Policy Ideas and Reform Strategies in Contemporary New Zealand Pension Politics
… investigates the uniqueness of New Zealand's pension system—a system that, for over a century, has predominantly relied on the first pillar of public pension for retirement income. It aims to uncover the underlying reasons and logic for this approach and to draw lessons for the evolution of …
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Live Longer, Work Longer? Evidence from Sweden’s Ageing Population
… of per capita benefits, encompassing costs for pensions, health care, and all other type of old-age welfare services, which presents a looming challenge for the welfare state to sustain its social transfer system. Options for tackling this daunting challenge, such as increasing fertility and …