Health Spending, Consumption and Labour Supply Over the Life-Cycle: The Effect of Old-Age Security and Annuity Market Imperfections

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casper Worm Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Market Imperfections ◽  
Old Age Security ◽  
Annuity Market

Rites of Passage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Michaels
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Vulnerable Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the classical Hindu life-cycle rites, the term saṃskāra and its history, and the main sources (Gṛhyasūtras and Dharma texts). It presents a history of the traditional saṃskāras and variants in local contexts, especially in Nepal. It describes prenatal, birth and childhood, initiation, marriage, old-age, death, and ancestor rituals. Finally, it analyzes the transformational process of these life-cycle rituals in the light of general theories on rites of passage. It proposes, in saṃskāras, man equates himself with the unchangeable and thus seems to counteract the uncertainty of the future, of life and death, since persons are confronted with their finite existence. For evidently every change, whether social or biological, represents a danger for the cohesion of the vulnerable community of the individual and society. These rituals then become an attempt of relegating the effects of nature or of mortality: birth, teething, sexual maturity, reproduction, and dying.

Class, pensions and old-age security

2013 ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizangela Storelli ◽  
John B. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Old Age Security

Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective.

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 486
Author(s):  
Carole Haber ◽  
John B. Williamson ◽  
Fred C. Pampel
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Old Age Security

scholarly journals Metaphors of Life in German Idioms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsisana Modebadze
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Sun ◽  
German Word ◽  
Sun And Shade ◽  
Whole Life Cycle ◽  
Negative Moments

The aim of the study is to define the metaphoric meaning of the concept ‘life’ in the German idioms. The German word das Leben means both to live and life in Georgian. It means German does not differentiate them. Our task is to define the positive and the negative connotations of idioms containing the concept of life/ live. To solve this task, we searched for the relevant phraseologisms in the dictionaries and classified them. The study has revealed that lexemes denoting seasons prevail in such idioms. In a metaphoric sense, we can show these idioms as a whole life cycle: from cradle to grave. The lexeme spring stands for youth years (Der Frühling des Lebens-the spring of life), while the lexeme autumn stands for the old age (Der Herbst des Lebens- the autumn of life). In the same figurative sense, the lexeme Lebenmay refers to one day only. For instance, Leben ist ein Tag – Life is one day. This phraseologism shows the brevity of life. Metaphorical compound Lebensabend means the evening of life, that is the old age. The brevity of life is also reflected in the idiom sein letztes Stündlein hat geschlagen- ‘his last hour struck’, meaning, his life came to an end. Metaphorisation of human’s life is also common with the following lexemes: plants, travel, road, food, struggle, liquid and vessel. Thus, life is alternation of positive and negative moments. The former are often compared to light and the sun, while the latter - to shade, darkness and night. Proceeding from this life is a regular alteration of light and darkness, the sun and shade, light and dark.

Cash, Children or Kind? Developing Old Age Security for Low-Income People in Africa

2009 ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Madhurantika Moulick ◽  
Angela Mutua ◽  
Moses Mutua ◽  
Corrinne Ngurukie ◽  
Michael Onesimo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Old Age Security
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