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  Health, ageing and retirement in Europe - first results from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe

  Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, 2005

  This book is about the lives of Europeans aged 50 and over. It paints a picture of their health, their families and social networks, their economic situation and their happiness. It shows the large variation of life circumstances in each country, and it reveals striking differences as well as similarities across the European countries.Two observations form the background for this book.
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  Chilean pension reform: the good, the bad, and the in between

  Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2005

  This paper assesses the Chilean pension system nearly 25 years after its transformation from the traditional pay-as-you-go structure to a system based on personal retirement accounts.The author suggests that the Chilean experience illustrates that, when needed, extreme and fiscally sound pension reforms can bring dynamism to the capital markets.
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  Why forcing people to save for retirement may backfire

  CESifo, 2005

  This paper suggests that affordability is a key determinant in the retirement decisions made by individuals. The authors use individual data from a selection of Swiss pension funds to show that the incidence of early retirement has increased considerably in the last decade, even in the absence of institutional changes, such as incentives set by social security and the tax system.
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  Social security programs throughout the world

  Social Security Online, 2010

  This publication highlights the principal features of social security programmess in more than 170 countries: old - age, survivors, and disability; sickness and maternity; work injury; unemployment; and family allowances.
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  Older persons in Cambodia: a profile from the 2004 survey of elderly

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2005

  This report provides a demographic, social, economic and health profile of Cambodia’s older population based on the 2004 Survey of Elderly in Cambodia (SEC), a representative survey of persons age 60 and over conducted in Phnom Penh and the five largest provinces.
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  From rhetoric to reality: Afghan women on the agenda for peace

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005

  This paper examines the effectiveness of the international community’s commitment to women’s rights and provides an overview of women’s initiatives and activities in Afghanistan.
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  UNHCR’s age and gender mainstreaming pilot project 2004: synthesis report

  Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2005

  This report assesses the UNHCR age and gender mainstreaming pilot project launched in 2004. It provides a strategic overview of the pilot project experience, drawing out findings, good practice, lessons learnt and recommendations for the future.
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  Coping without children: comparative historical and cross-cultural perspectives

  Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2004

  Older generations are composed of a number of distinctive sub-populations which need much closer attention if the differential impacts of population ageing are to be accurately assessed. One such population is older people without children, a group commonly assumed to consist chiefly of small minorities of infertile couples.
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  Solving the pensions puzzle

  Ageing Society, 2005

  This OECD policy brief suggests that public opinion on pensions has been changing. People are realising that a shrinking number of young workers will have trouble paying for more and more pensioners.
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  Rural parents with urban children: social and economic implications of migration on the rural elderly in Thailand

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2005

  This study aimes to explore the circumstances in Thailand under which the migration of rural adult children to urban areas takes place, with attention to how parents and their situation influence these decisions, and the consequences for the social and economic well-being of parents who remain behind in the rural areas after the children leave.

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