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The second-tier authorities must, by definition be smaller than the first-tier authorities, but there is no intrinsic merit in bigness.
It is very likely that the second-tier authority will aways have as the core the population centre in that area.
There can be no doubt that when second-tier authorities are appointed in this way they bear comparison with an arranged marriage.
Not only had fewer women contributed towards second-tier pensions, but on average they had contributed for a shorter period (13 years compared to 21 years for men).
Indeed, exogenous-defensive frames have displayed relatively little victimisation of welfare dependants as being fraud-prone or lazy - although second-tier social assistance recipients have, as elsewhere, fared worse.
Within the ordinary banking sector, banks were further divided according to size and scope of activity into city or large commercial banks, regional banks and second-tier regional banks.
Promotion of schemes is likely to be expensive and the government has not yet decided whether to make such second-tier pension contributions compulsory or not.
However, no such protection is available for second-tier pensions, and significant differences in potential future entitlement were found according to current role occupancy.
