From Right to Reality : Incentives, Labor Markets, and the ChallEnglishe of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean
This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challEnglishes caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. The book argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. It advocates well-targeted, tax-funded, tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low-income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and labor market programs, and safety net transfers.
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2011
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Authors: | Ribe, Helena |
Other Persons: | Robalino, David (contributor) ; Walker, Ian (contributor) ; World Bank, (contributor) |
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Washington : World Bank Publications |
Subject: | Soziale Sicherheit | Social security | Lateinamerika | Latin America | Karibischer Raum | Caribbean countries |
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Extent: | 1 online resource (403 pages) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8213-8906-5 ; 978-0-8213-8687-3 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012689365
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