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Record W15311450

Gender Risk and Employment Pension Plans in Canada

2013· article· en· W15311450 on OpenAlexaffabout
Elizabeth Shilton

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Policy and Governance
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPensionLabour economicsWelfareInequalityGovernment (linguistics)EconomicsBusinessDemographic economicsFinanceMarket economy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Current policy debates about Canada’s retirement income system have failed to consider “gender risk” -- the risk that Canadian women will bear a disproportionate share of welfare loss in old age. This paper argues that the continuing gender disparity in retirement income owes much to Canada’s heavy reliance on private employment pension plans, which are generated and shaped by labour markets and distribute benefits in accordance with market rather than public policy objectives. She argues that the differential impact of employment-based pension plans on men and women is a function of the distinct patterns of male and female engagement in the labour market, which in turn reflect gender inequality in both the workplace and in the allocation of reproductive and care giving work. A gender-equal pension system would pool and share the welfare risks which that those twin inequalities entail. The author argues that voluntary employment-based pension plans cannot remedy gender inequality, nor can individualized retirement saving vehicles such as the pooled retirement pension plans recently embraced by Canada's federal government; what is needed is a broad based collective risk-sharing vehicle such as the CPP/QPP which can be designed to share and manage gender risk.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.141
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0140.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2013
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