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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"old age security"”.
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Understanding Social Inclusion from the Perspective of Tamil Seniors and Service Providers in the Greater Toronto Area
… inform programs and policies. The researcher engaged with 27 Tamil seniors and 13 service providers using Concept Mapping and Focus Groups. The facilitators identified by seniors in Concept Mapping sessions created a seven-cluster map: family harmony; medical system; adaptation/integration; …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… motivated me in turn: one, the effect of household institutions on the provision of old age security; and two, the effect of political institutions on government policy and performance. Chapter 1, entitled Inter-generational Transfers and Intra-household Bargaining: Evidence from Indonesia, …
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Annuity Product Valuation and Risk Measurement under Correlated Financial and Longevity Risks
… pension-fund companies provide sustainable old-age security and maintain a resilient global insurance market. Fluctuations and a decreasing trend in mortality rates, which give rise to longevity risk, as well as the uncertainty in interest-rate dynamics constitute the two fundamental …
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Compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact: An Economic Analysis of Emerging Pressures Relating to Pension Provision
… an aspect of social protection: the provision of old age security. The realisation that current pension schemes in many Member States will not be fiscally sustainable has forced their governments to start the process of legislative reform. The challenge is to design pension systems that do not …
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Deviant fertility in China
… a sample of 6,654 Chinese ever married women aged 49 or younger, the Old-Age Security Survey of 220 married Chinese couples, and the Records of County Family Planning Commissions. More than 50 variables and a number of measurement scales are defined and measured. Descriptive statistics, …
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Essays on Technology Adoption, Demographics, and Development
… in the context of developing countries. A two-stage model is built to explain how the availability of casual (non-permanent) labor ex-post, in the presence of uncertainty may affect agents' ex-ante technology choices. A higher degree of uncertainty induces the agents to choose traditional …
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Fertility differentials among the Karen, a hill tribe minority in Northern Thailand
… and the availability of electricity in the households are more likely to have lower fertility. The Karen who have a higher level of wealth as measured by ownership of livestock and modem consumer goods have higher fertility. Economic hardship is one of the important reasons for not wanting many …
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Fertility differentials among the Karen, a hill tribe minority in Northern Thailand
… and the availability of electricity in the households are more likely to have lower fertility. The Karen who have a higher level of wealth as measured by ownership of livestock and modem consumer goods have higher fertility. Economic hardship is one of the important reasons for not wanting many …
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Verteilungswirkungen anreizorientierter Sozialpolitik : das deutsche Rentenversicherungs- und Steuersystem in der Perspektive dynamischer Lebenszyklusmodelle
… 2004 verstärkt diesen Mechanismus auf der Grundlage neuer empirischer Erkenntnisse. Auch der Übergang zur überwiegend nachgelagerten Besteuerung mit dem Alterseinkünftegesetz 2004 wirkt in diese Richtung durch eine wachsende steuerliche Absetz¬barkeit der Alters¬sicherungsbeiträge bei …