The article presents an analysis of welfare effects in Slovenia, an analysis of supplementary pension insurance in Slovenia and an analysis of the effects of the pension fund deficit on the sustainability of Slovenian public finances. Stress was placed upon varying the parameters of the current Slovenian pension system and introducing mandatory supplementary pension insurance in Slovenia. It ha...

who have a special interest in the whole problem. Among the Associations represented are the Central Association for Mental Welfare, the Charity Organisation Society, the Institute of Hospital Almoners, the Magistrates' Association, and the National Council for Mental Hygiene. The immediate work of the Council will be educational. Interest in, and understanding of, the Child Guidance Clinic Mov...

In 1995, based on emerging research across the US and a tragic case in Connecticut (Gomby, Larson, Lewit, & Behrman, 993; Kauffman, 1996; Tuohy, 1992; Office of the Child Advocate, 2001) that highlighted the need to prevent child abuse, the onnecticut Children’s Trust Fund, now a division of the State’s Department of Social Services, launched amajor initiative to evelop a universal home visitin...

This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, i.e., upward sloping demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two provinces of China, we find strong evidence of Giffen behavior for rice in Hunan, and weaker evidence for wheat in Gansu. The data provide new insight into the consumption behavior of the poor, who act as though maximiz...

Does task significance increase job performance? Correlational designs and confounded manipulations have prevented researchers from assessing the causal impact of task significance on job performance. To address this gap, 3 field experiments examined the performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions of task significance. In Experiment 1, fundraising callers who received a ...