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Pension Policy in EU25 and its Possible Impact on ElderlyPoverty

Zaidi, Asghar; Grech, Aaron George; Fuchs, Michael - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

This paper reviews changes in pension policies in EU countries between 1995 and2005 and describes how they might affect risk of poverty for future pensionerpopulations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed considerably in the pastdecade and the paper highlights commonalities as well as...

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Office space supply restrictions in Britain : the political economy of market revenge

Cheshire, Paul C. (contributor); … - 2006

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Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

We re-examine the labor donation theory of not-for-profits and show that these organizations may exist notnecessarily because motivated workers prefer to work in them, or that they dominate for-profits in terms ofwelfare, but because the excess supply of motivated workers makes the non-profit...

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Women’s family histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany

Evandrou, Maria; Falkingham, Jane; Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women‟s families histories and their personal incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany, By comparing three countries with very different welfare regimes, we seek to gain...

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Family ties: Women’s work and family histories and theirassociation with incomes in later life in the UK

Sefton, Tom; Evandrou, Maria; Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between the family and work histories of olderwomen in the UK and their individual incomes in later life, using retrospective datafrom the first fifteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey. The associationsbetween women’s family histories and their...

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From Beveridge to Turner: Demography, Distribution and the Future of Pensions in the UK

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Savings Scheme, into which employees without goodemployer provision would automatically be enrolled. The proposals, which …

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Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany

Zaidi, Asghar; Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining...

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Inclusion or Insurance?National Insurance and the future of the contributoryprinciple

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper examines the decline of National Insurance in Britain, as witnessedby its declining share of all social security spending and the steady dilution ofthe “contributory principle” on which it was originally based. It argues that thisdecline is not an accident: under governments of...

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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

from import duties and direct taxes upon their incomes and wealth. Since total tax revenues depended on rates of tax levied … upon the volume of goods and services assessed to tax, economic forces which affected private expenditures in general, or … the demand and supply for taxed goods in particular, influenced the level of Exchequer receipts. Most tax revenue came …

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In What Way, and to What Degree, Did the Mughal State Inhibit Smithian Growth In India in the Seventeenth Century?

Ellis, Frank W. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

cash demands of the tax system. ‘Natural’ commerce and Smithian growth scarcely existed, since there was no surplus after …

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