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  National Opinion Research Center (NORC)

  NORC's mission is to conduct high quality social science research by developing effective, innovative solutions using state-of-the-art technology  in the public interest.
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  New findings on human longevity predictors

  National Opinion Research Center, 2007

  Centenarians (persons living to age 100 and over) represent a population which could be useful in identifying factors leading to long life and avoidance of fatal diseases.
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  Managerial attitudes toward older workers: a review of the evidence

  Urban Institute, USA, 2007

  This report reviews the literature on managerial attitudes toward older workers. It discusses the benefits of delayed retirement, the current retirement landscape, and some theoretical issues in the demand for older workers.
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  Robust determinants of income growth in the Philippines

  The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, 2006

  This paper examines the relationship between population dynamics and income growth in the Philippines using data from 74 provinces for the period of 1985-2003. It also examines the robustness of the explanatory variables to determine deep determinants of income growth.
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  Global age-friendly cities: a guide

  Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2007

  Population ageing and urbanisation are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century. The purpose of this Guide is to engage cities to become more age-friendly so as to tap the potential that older people represent for humanity.
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  Labour supply responses to large social transfers: longitudinal evidence from South Africa

  Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University, 2007

  This paper quantifies the labour supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal data collected in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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  Assessing the distortions of mandatory pensions on labour supply decisions and human capital accumulation: how to bridge the gap between economic theory and policy analysis

  2007

  Defined benefit pension systems, usually financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, often embed bad microeconomic design features that create distortions in savings and labour demand/supply decisions. This paper focuses on two that are relevant from the point of view of labour markets: incentives to retire early; and institutional fragmentation.
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  Differential retirement age: another face to gender discrimination

  Eldis Document Store, 2007

  Despite the rapid pace of economic change in Vietnam, this paper argues that the country remains wedded to the principle of differential retirement age for women and men across all sectors of the economy, including the civil service. The authors examine the issue of differential retirement age as another face of gender discrimination in Vietnam.
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  The politics behind the non-contributory old age social pensions in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007

  Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Botswana comprise a cluster of southern African countries which provide monthly non-contributory benefits to their elderly citizens. Unlike in Western welfare states, these non-contributory pensions are funded from general taxation, rather than income from employees’ social security payments which places an additional fiscal burden on the state.
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  Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India

  The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice and  empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of Indian society: "scheduled

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