By Jaquiline Amani This qualitative study explored prospective teacher retirees’ perceived fears about retirement and identified key drivers of retirement anxiety. Data were collected through focus group discussions with 22 teachers from two regions of Tanzania. The participants were purposively selected from public schools and had ten years or less remaining before reaching voluntary or […]

By Grant Laschowski & Norm O’Reilly This research aims to investigate the financial well-being (FWB) of retired male athletes in major professional North American team sports. Framed around Kempson’s (2017) FWB Model, the aim of this research is (1) to identify the key drivers that influence how retired athletes feel about their current financial situations […]

By Travis Campbell & Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers The emerging field of LGBTQ+ economics has convincingly demonstrated that LGBTQ+ individuals face distinct labor market disparities. This chapter provides an overview of their unfavorable labor market outcomes and then focuses on several specific issues for transgender workers. Previous studies show that gender-affirming care can improve […]

Currently, only around one-in-five self-employed workers save into a private pension, compared with around four-in-five employees. There is widespread agreement that there is an urgent need for policies addressing low pension participation among the self-employed, as recently highlighted by the Second Pensions Commission. A key potential moment for such policies is the point when employees […]

France is on track to run a larger-than-expected pension deficit from 2045 as falling birth rates and an ageing population put increasing pressure on the country’s retirement system, according to the body that monitors its sustainability. The French Pensions Advisory Council said a recent downward revision to the fertility rate had worsened the outlook, with […]

The government is preparing to introduce a legislative provision to summarily retire around 10,000 civil servants in a single sweep. The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperative, Federal Affairs and General Administration has drafted a fresh Federal Civil Service Bill containing a special, one-time provision targeted at bureaucratic downsizing. According to this proposal, any civil servant […]

Stephen Gilmore’s 40-year tour of global finance has given him a front-row seat to the Russian debt crisis, the bailout of a financial giant and the rise of sovereign wealth funds. It’s also taken him to a war zone. As the International Monetary Fund’s representative in Tajikistan in the 1990s, Gilmore hunkered down in his […]