Age UK is a leading charity focused on enhancing the lives of older adults across various aspects of their lives. The organization offers a broad range of services including companionship, advice on benefits and entitlements, legal and health information, and support for those facing challenges in ...
The small pensions they accumulate in such schemes merely offset entitlements to means-tested pension benefits, leaving them no better off in old age. Concerns about the behavioural consequences of pension means-testing are not new. Nonetheless, few policymakers have been willing to look at when ...
“old age security,” the United Kingdom's basic state pension (but with very low benefits), the “minimum contributif” in France (which is proportional to the duration of the career and is intended to compensate more for low wages than interrupted careers), or the “age pension” in ...
Results suggest that intergenerational transmission of age at first birth is evident in all four parent–child dyads and at all ages of the first-birth process. This means that even in a society as contemporary Norway, with a welfare state that offers a range of universal social benefits, own...
adults are entitled to these benefits based on the contributions they have made to society and the economy in their 'productive years' (the upper limit of which is often stipulated by the law through the age of superannuation).9 These assumptions contribute to greater autonomy for older persons...
The other thing that companies need to think about—and this might also even include the companies that are providing these platforms—is how do they provide a mechanism for the ratings or benefits to be able to move around with the workers? And how do they help workers stabil...
However few studies have formally compared the benefits of different types of childcare before the age of two years across different socio-economic groups, with the majority focussing only on socially deprived samples. One exception is a study using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Researchers found ...
Not only was there a major reform of the disability system, but also a 2-year con- tinuation of wage payments for sick workers was introduced, the health insurance system was changed, early retirement schemes were abolished, the maximum dura- tion of unemployment benefits was shortened and ...
Without role shifting and cross-disciplinary skills, opportunities might be missed and, more likely, technologies will become a ‘bolt-on’ to existing working practice instead of being a strategic weapon to leverage investment benefits and minimise losses. The empirical evidence reveals that role ...
In the coming age of population-scale biobanks and genomic profiles, we should recognize the benefits of new technologies while seeking to avoid harms attributable to disrespect of personhood. James Scott famously highlighted the dangers inherent in "seeing like a state", i.e., utopian social ...