scholarly journals Welfare Systems and Adequacy of Pension Benefits in Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orla Gough ◽  
Roberta Adami
Keyword(s):  
European Countries ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Private Pensions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Post War ◽  
Pension Benefits ◽  
The Impact

During the post-war years many European countries have implemented far-reaching but diverse pension systems with the objective of providing those in retirement with adequate incomes. In this study, we explore the link between pension systems and the adequacy of retirement income. We analyse the mix of public and private pensions and consider the impact of different policies on poverty rates amongst pensioners. We suggest that only a few European countries have been successful in providing combinations of private and public pensions that improve the adequacy of retirement income.

scholarly journals Patterns of Interrelationships between Inflation, R&D, Innovation, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-33
Author(s):  
Ljubivoje Radonjić ◽  
◽  
Nevena Veselinović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Impact

The primary objective of the article is to examine the nexus between inflation, R&D, patents, and economic growth within a group of Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). The examination is conducted in two parts. First, the impact of total R&D expenditures on economic growth is observed, as well as the influence of growth on private and public R&D investments. Second, the conversion from private and public R&D investment to innovation, measured by the number of patents, is observed. Throughout the analysis, economic growth and inflation are representative of macroeconomic stability. The outcomes of the panel auto-regressive distributed lag estimation indicate that total R&D expenditures are essential and positively significant for economic growth in the observed countries. The results also show that output growth has a remarkably positive impact on generating private R&D expenditures. Such an influence is also found, but at a weaker level, in the case of public R&D expenditures. In this part of the analysis, inflation has demonstrated a harmful influence on R&D expenditures. The results of the second part indicate that public and private R&D expenditures, at a significant level, generate innovation activities, while the impact of inflation has proven to be unimportant.

scholarly journals Investigating Predictors of Public- and Private-Sphere Sustainable Behaviors in the Context of Agritourism

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 663
Author(s):  
Sara Brune ◽  
Whitney Knollenberg ◽  
Kathryn Stevenson ◽  
Carla Barbieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Personal Norms ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Behavioral Antecedents

Encouraging sustainable behaviors regarding food choices among the public is crucial to ensure food systems’ sustainability. We expand the understanding of sustainable behavioral change by assessing engagement in local food systems (LFSs) in the context of agritourism experiences. Using theory of planned behavior (TPB) and personal norms, we conducted pre–post-surveys at agritourism farms to measure the impact of changes in the TPB behavioral antecedents as predictors of the following behavioral intentions regarding LFS engagement: (1) purchasing local food (private-sphere behavior), (2) increasing monthly budget to purchase local food (private-sphere behavior) and (3) advocating for local food (public-sphere behavior). Our findings indicate that strategies to encourage LFS engagement should seek to activate moral considerations that can motivate action across private and public behaviors, which applies to various demographic groups. To stimulate collective action, strategies should target subjective norms specifically (e.g., encouraging social interaction around local food), while strategies encouraging private behaviors should focus on easing perceived barriers to buying local food (e.g., promoting local food outlets). As agritourism experiences effectively modify the three above-mentioned behavioral antecedents, we advocate for holistic experiences that provide opportunities for deeper engagement with local food, stimulate the senses, and facilitate social interaction around LFSs.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL PROVISION OF THE PENSION SYSTEM IN THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND UKRAINE UNDER GLOBALIZATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Tetiana Ivashchenko
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Pension Insurance ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
System Functioning ◽  
The Impact

The most contradictions arise today over the pension system reforming. Each year the states spent significant resources to finance social and economic needs of the population. The positive effect of the nominal growth of the social and economic guarantees in Ukraine leveled nowadays in terms of financial, economic and political instability. Also the processes of depopulation have a very negative impact on the financial viability of the PAYG pension system. Given this, the research aim was to study and discuss tendencies in financial provision of the pension systems in the European countries and Ukraine under globalization. As a result in the process of research the main features of functioning and providing of the pension insurance systems in European countries and Ukraine were examined; the impact of the depopulation processes on the financial provision of the pension systems was determined; problems, related to introduction of the funded system of pension insurance were analyzed; the role of the minimum pension institute in provision of the effective pension system functioning was disclosed and recommendations in relation to optimization of pension insurance and providing сo-operation under globalization were developed.

scholarly journals Three paths to more encompassing supplementary pensions

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARGARITA GELEPITHIS
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Private Pensions ◽  
Down Regulation ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
The Uk

AbstractIn pension systems characterized by low or moderate state benefits, reliance on voluntary private pensions creates a dualism of access to adequate retirement income. This dualism is expected to persist over time. Yet while some private-heavy pension systems continue to rely on dualising voluntarism, since the 1980s most have introduced regulatory reforms to make private pensions more encompassing. This paper uses fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify three paths to the regulatory extension of private pension coverage – collective self-regulation, top-down regulation in Continental Europe, and top-down regulation in Anglophone countries. A case study of the UK then shows how it is that unions have been able to bring about more encompassing private pensions in Anglophone countries, despite strong employer opposition, weak formal influence in policymaking, and a weak institutional capacity for collective self-regulation.

The Transformation of Kosovar Holidays between Socialism, War and Migration. A Biographical Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cord Pagenstecher
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Tourist Behavior ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
Biographical Study ◽  
Post War ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross System

AbstractThis paper studies the transformative character of tourism and travel for a small, but multi-facetted example: Kosovo is a post-socialist transformation society and a post-war country in the process of nation building, a developing country within Europe and a transnational migration society. With quantitative data being unreliable in such contexts, an exemplary, biographical study allows an analysis of cross-system transformations and continuities. Based on narrative interviews, the paper studies travel patterns and narratives of an Albanian woman (anonymized here as Zana Bajrami) from socialist rural Yugoslavia in the 1970s to migratory Europe in the 2000s. After a general introduction, the paper considers public and private tourism in Yugoslavia first, before focusing on the impact of migration on tourist behavior. In trying to contextualize an individual example, it also explores the potential of a biographical approach in tourism research.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE TRUST FACTOR ON EMPLOYEES' PERFORMANCE IN IRAQI PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR PROJECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Nooralhuda M. AZIZE
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Organizational Productivity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Trust Climate ◽  
The Impact

Construction companies always attempt to improve their productivity. Trust is the best way to achieve its goal, because it is a very useful way to improve employees and organizational productivity as well as effective strategic plans implementation. In this research, we examine how a trust climate provides a favorable environment for the performance of employees and the development of organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Also, this study has analyzed the trust effects on the performance of employees. The population of this study is private and public sector projects from which a sample of (26) projects in Iraq are chosen. Data are collected and the test of the model is on (140) respondents (project team members and workers) of construction companies in Iraq. The evaluation the concepts data is analyzed by using descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression tests. Hypothesis results indicate a positive relationship between the independent variable and dependent variable. Lastly, research limitations, recommendations for future research, and conclusions are discussed in details.

scholarly journals The failure of mainstream parties and the impact of new challenger parties in France, Italy and Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Piero Ignazi
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Collective Engagement

Abstract Political parties share a very bad reputation in most European countries. This paper provides an interpretation of this sentiment, reconstructing the downfall of the esteem in which parties were held and their fall since the post-war years up to present. In particular, the paper focuses on the abandonment of the parties' founding ‘logic of appropriateness’ based, on the one hand, on the ethics for collective engagement in collective environments for collective aims and, on the other hand, on the full commitment of party officials. The abandonment of these two aspects has led to a crisis of legitimacy that mainstream parties have tried to counteract in ways that have proven ineffective, as membership still declines and confidence still languishes. Finally, the paper investigates whether the new challenger parties in France, Italy and Spain have introduced organizational and behavioural changes that could eventually reverse disaffection with the political party per se.

A Theory of Intergovernmental Grants and their Effect on Aggregate Grantor-Recipient Spending

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Schwallie
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Intergovernmental Grants ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Investigations

The impact of intergovernmental grants on the expenditures of recipients has been the focus of considerable investigation, while their impact on the relative sizes of the public and private sectors has been given little more than brief discussion. No well-defined structure has emerged to explain how a system of intergovernmental grants might affect public sector size. This article is a first attempt at such a structure. It investigates the impact of intergovernmental grants by comparing public sector size in the presence of conditional lump-sum grants to public sector size in their absence for given grantor and recipient preferences on the allocation of financial resources between the private and public sectors. Implications are drawn from the model and comments are made pertaining to the empirical investigations of grant effects on recipient governments spending.

scholarly journals THE RETURN ON SOCIAL SECURITY WITH INCREASING LONGEVITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 462-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Knell
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Social Optimum ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Internal Rate Of Return ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Pension Benefits ◽  
The Impact

In this paper I study the impact of increasing longevity on pay-as-you-go pension systems. First, I show that increasing longevity increases the internal rate of return. The size of the effect differs for different policy regimes. It is higher for the case where the retirement age is increased to keep the system in balance than for the case where the necessary adjustment is achieved by reducing pension benefits. Second, I study optimally chosen retirement decisions and I show that the socially optimal policy involves a shorter working life than the private optimum. The social optimum can be implemented by the use of a PAYG system that combines an actuarial and a flat pension.

scholarly journals JOB SATISFACTION: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE AND MOTIVATION OF UNIVERSITY ACADEMICIANS IN PAKISTAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Munazza Rahim Hanafi ◽  
Khalid Iraqi
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Successful Education ◽  
The Impact

The key resource for the achievement of institutional objectives and enhancement of high quality education are teachers. Well motivated and satisfied teachers cultivate the successful education system in the country. Thus, the present study attempts to observe the impact of motivation and experience on job satisfaction of teachers through the perspective of Herzberg’s ideology of employee motivation and job satisfaction by conducting the comparative study of both public and private sector universities in Karachi. The sample was purposively drawn from 300 teachers and the data was analyzed by using partial least squares - Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Additionally, significant differences were found in the job satisfaction and motivation level among private and public university teachers. The presented findings embrace the implications for higher education institutions and HR practitioners.

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