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  2. Pension - Wikipedia

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    A pension (/ ˈ p ɛ n ʃ ən /; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work.

  3. Service (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Service delivery duration – the maximum allowable period for effectively rendering all service benefits to the consumer. Service delivery unit – the scope/number of action(s) that constitute a delivered service. Serves as the reference object for the Service Delivering Price, for all service costs as well as for charging and billing.

  4. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  5. Pensions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Outside of veterans' pensions, the institution of the first public pension plan for New York City Police is considered as the first iteration of a modern pension in the USA. The Police Life and Health Insurance Fund, created in 1857, provided payment to officers injured or otherwise disabled in the line of duty and offered compensation in a ...

  6. Social pension - Wikipedia

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    Recoverable social pension is a universal pension in terms of eligibility. The difference is that this pension is added to other taxable income and is subject to recovery by a surcharge. Social assistance pension covers all other types of social pension. It can be further divided by its means test, based on whether it is applied only on the ...

  7. Economic cost - Wikipedia

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    Shows a firm's Economic Costs in the "Short Run" - which, as defined, contains at least 1 "Fixed Cost" that cannot be changed or done away with even if the firm goes out of business (stops producing) Variable cost: Variable costs are the costs paid to the variable input. Inputs include labor, capital, materials, power and land and buildings.

  8. Public employee pension plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The same study found that workers with tenures of 10-25 years of service were served well by 10.9% of plans. Workers with less than 10 years of service were served well by .5% of plans. [18] In another study, Equable Institute found that the total lifetime value of teacher pension benefits have declined by $100,000 on average (13%) since 2005.

  9. Pension fund - Wikipedia

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    It is important to distinguish between pension plan, funds and firm. A pension plan is a benefits program set up and sustained by an employer or an employee group. They are managed by state or private firms as well as pension funds. [6] Pension funds are financial mechanisms that provide retirement income for employees after their working life.