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Pension plans and the retirement replacement rates in the Netherlands
This study compares the expected retirement replacement rates of several cohorts of Dutch employees at the time of their planned retirement with the 'actual' replacement rates based on available pension records. We find that using reasonable indexation rates, the expected replacement rates�are higher than the one we compute. Larger discrepancies are found for younger cohorts. We decompose the difference between the expected and 'actual' replacement rates and find that the mismatch is related to poor institutional knowledge for the whole sample. We also show the role of assumptions on institutions and on wage profiles in determining our results.
Motives of Socially Responsible Business Conduct
The social and ecological challenges that governments face have raised their interest in socially responsible business conduct (SRBC). In this article we analyze the motives of executives to perform SRBC. We distinguish three types of motives: financial, ethical and altruistic motives. We test the hypotheses on a sample of 473 executives. The estimation results show that SRBC is driven by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motives, but that the intrinsic motives are stronger than the extrinsic motive.intrinsic motivation;extrinsic motivation;corporate social responsibility;socially responsible business conduct
The absence of institutional entrepreneurship in climate adaptation policy. In search of local adaptation strategies for Rotterdam's unembanked areas.
HORACE: software for the analysis of data from single crystal spectroscopy experiments at time-of-flight neutron instruments
The HORACE suite of programs has been developed to work with large
multiple-measurement data sets collected from time-of-flight neutron
spectrometers equipped with arrays of position-sensitive detectors. The
software allows exploratory studies of the four dimensions of reciprocal space
and excitation energy to be undertaken, enabling multi-dimensional subsets to
be visualized, algebraically manipulated, and models for the scattering to
simulated or fitted to the data. The software is designed to be an extensible
framework, thus allowing user-customized operations to be performed on the
data. Examples of the use of its features are given for measurements exploring
the spin waves of the simple antiferromagnet RbMnF and ferromagnetic
iron, and the phonons in URuSi.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
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