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    social networks as a new form of communicating to their suppliers and customers. The improve of technology such as communication technology is the most important reason to increase the number of self employed business. Since Entrepreneurs don't have pension then it is their own responsibility to determine what type of retirement plan suits their particular requirements. It can be a bit confusing because there are plenty of

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    The perception that there is a need for government involvement in pensions is in large part due to the fact that private pensions are decreasingly reliable. According to Bonnar (2008), “conventional wisdom suggests that private sector defined-benefit (DB) pension plans are in the midst of a funding crisis” (p. 21). In terms of how this applies to Ontario in particularly, it is probably based, Bonnar (2008) argues, on the fact that the largest 100 companies in the Toronto stock exchange saw their

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    this paper for the period before 2006 consists of the pension data only, and ignores the minority of the cases for which deferred compensation data are available. Sundaram and Yermack (2007) calculate the actuarial present values of each CEO’s pension at the end of each fiscal year. They calculated the actuarial present value of a CEO’s pension by using the following formula – ∑_(n=max⁡(0,R-A))^(K-A)▒p(n)X/〖(1+d)〗^n Where X is the annual pension amount, R is the minimum retirement age, A is the CEO’s

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    has a significantly wide gender wage gap. In the broader sense, women are paid an average of 16% less per hour than men in European countries. As a result of this wage gap, women earn much less than men over their lifetimes. This causes for lower pensions as well as a risk for poverty once a woman reaches old age. In 2012 alone, 21.7% of women aged 65 and over were at a high risk for poverty due to their pay. This is significantly less than the 16.3% of men aged 65 and over who were at a high risk

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    RESEARCH DESIGN Model and hypothesis Fiscal control boards have different impacts on the cities under which they function. My hypothesis is that the level of structural considerations such as citizen participation, socioeconomic factors, and the legal framework taken into account in the board’s policy making procedures affect its level of effectiveness. These features of control boards are then used to analyze Puerto Rico’s case in terms of strengths and weaknesses in its potential success in addressing

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    The Rhode Island Pension Reform Background There are over a million residents living in Rhode Island between the ages of 21 to 65. The majority of the Rhode Island population is not employed by the state nor does an individual concern oneself with state issues (Randazzo, 2013). The Employee Retirement System of Rhode Island (ERSRI) was originated to cover state employees and teacher’s retirement, disability, survivor, and death benefits (Randazzo, 2013). In 1987 and 1989, the State Police Retirement

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    Pension, a regular payment made during a person’s retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed to during their working life. After retirement a retiree depends one their pension as a source of income. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who have spent their lives working hard to support themselves and or their families for years have gotten their pensions either cut or completely taken away. There are a variety of negative effects for pension recipients

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    company’s pension and postretirement benefit expenses that drove up their cost of making cars versus the cost of their foreign competitors. In 2009, right in the mist of the U.S. economic crisis GM filed bankruptcy (Welch, 2009).Prior to filing bankruptcy critics suggested that GM misrepresented their pension-related financial statements to conceal serious financial problems. In 2002, GM was facing falling stock market prices that drove down the value of their assets surrounding their pension plans and

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    Macau Pension Fund

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    same time, SSF was positioned as a financially independent fund under the local government. In Macau, Pension fund is included in the SSF, and there is no separation between the management of pension fund and SSF. Instead, pension fund is considered as an expense from the aspect of financial management. All the working people, including non-permanent and permanent

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    president has ever attempted reform as it isn’t a current problem. Therefore it has never been a priority for those needing votes to stay in office. Now that we are as close as seven years to recalling the IOUs, the issue is rapidly progressing into a crisis. Even if we found a

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