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Should Pension Systems Recognise "Hazardous and Arduous Work"?

Zaidi, Asghar; Whitehouse, Edward R. - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009

Special pensions for workers in hazardous or arduous jobs have long been a feature of the pension landscape and …, recently, they are the subject of a great deal of debate in the pension arenas of many OECD countries. Such pensions are …

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Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Immervoll, Herwig; Richardson, Linda - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2011

We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or accelerated the trend towards greater income disparities in the past 20-25 years. In most countries, inequality among “non-elderly” households has widened during most phases of...

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Socio-Economic Differences in Mortality: Implications for Pensions Policy

Whitehouse, Edward R.; Zaidi, Asghar - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2008

incentives, future pension expenditures and private pensions. The empirical work shows that the mortality differentials reduce … retraite futures et les pensions privées. Les travaux empiriques font apparaître que les écarts de mortalité réduisent la …

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Neutral or Fair?: Actuarial Concepts and Pension-System Design

Queisser, Monika; Whitehouse, Edward R. - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2006

la valeur actuelle des prestations de pensions constituées pour une année supplémentaire de travail soit la même que pour … cette année-là). A l’inverse, partir à la retraite un an plus tôt devrait réduire les prestations de pensions par les droits …

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2006

For a number of reasons, incomes vary strongly with age. The nature of this variation is of interest for a wide range of policy purposes. Since age structures differ across countries, knowledge about the incomes earned by different age groups is also necessary for understanding and interpreting...

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Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps: Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Employment Incomes

Carone, Giuseppe; Immervoll, Herwig; Paturot, Dominique; … - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2004

<OL><LI>This paper presents results from an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. The project uses and extends OECD tax-benefit models to compute a range of work incentive indicators such as...</li></ol>

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The Turkish Pension System: Further Reforms to Help Solve the Informality Problem

Brook, Anne-Marie; Whitehouse, Edward R. - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2006

Recent social security reform has significantly improved the long-run sustainability of the pension system. However …

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Life-Expectancy Risk and Pensions: Who Bears the Burden?

Whitehouse, Edward R. - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2007

future pensions to changes in life expectancy. This quiet revolution in pension policy means that the financial costs of … automatic link between pensions and life expectancy in their retirement-income systems, compared with only one country (Denmark … politiques de pensions signifie que les coûts financiers engendrés par des vies plus longues seront partagés entre les …

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Pension Reform in China: Progress and Prospects

Salditt, Felix; Whiteford, Peter; Adema, Willem - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2007

China is currently in the process of developing the largest pension system in the world, and it is doing this at a time of unparalleled economic and demographic transition. The central government has followed a step-by-step approach to develop a system that can accommodate a rapidly aging...

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Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries

Martin, John P.; Whitehouse, Edward R. - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2008

1. Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public … spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and this pension spending effort is set to … pensions systems and which did not. It also examines the fiscal challenges posed by public pensions. Section 2 describes the …

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