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Inter-regional project : How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. T...
Chandoevwit, Worawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Thailand is a middle-income country with per capita income of 134,343 baht or US$3,887 in 2007.1 It was once an agrarian economy, but with the pace of development, its economy now relies more on industry and services. As a result, employment in these sectors has been increasing. With the move...
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Pension and Social Security Schemes in Pakistan : Some Policy Options
Mahmood, Naushin; Nasir, Zafar Mueen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
An examination of the public pension and social security schemes in Pakistan reveals that the provision of regular pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security schemes that are operational in the public and private sectors cover a small proportion of old-age...
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A Study on Financial Deficit and Declining Birthrate â۠From the Viewpoint of “Children as a Social Security Revenue Sourceâ€Â
Oguro, Kazumasa; Yuyama, Shoichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial difficulties. Recognizing these conditions, the government is now examining a framework for maintaining fiscal sustainability, mainly at the Council of Economic and Fiscal Policy. The...
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Can Social Security Boost Domestic Consumption in the People’s Republic of China?
Dewen, Wang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and … improve its social security system and provide basic support for all of its people. The unemployment shock has caused rural … social security would not only mitigate unemployment shocks in the short term, but it would also guarantee individuals and …
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Insecurities of the old and marginalized : Inflation, Oil Shocks, Financial Crisis and Social Security
Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typical savings cum pension portfolio and the specific consumption basket of the old, as prices of...
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Public Policy Towards the Elderly in Indonesia : Current Policy and Future Directions
Arifianto, Alex - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In the past few years, public policy towards the elderly has become an emerging policy issue for Indonesia. With one-third of all Indonesians predicted to be elderly (i.e. aged 60 years or older) in the year 2050, millions of citizens are vulnerable to old age poverty, since many of them will...
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Endogenous Population Growth, Social Security, and Dynamic Inefficiency
Takahata, Junichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Population growth rate matters for determining the optimal amount of capital in the context of dynamic inefficiency. From the aspect of social security, if there are pension schemes, individuals have no motive for having a child as income source for retirement periods. Thus, it is important to...
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Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asia’s Labor Market
Huynh, Phu; Kapsos, Steven; Kim, Kee Beom; Sziraczki, Gyorgy - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …
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Reducing Unemployment in Indonesia : Results from a Growth-Employment Elasticity Model
Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep; Sumarto, Sudarno - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
years of education. Starting with the premise that efforts to reduce unemployment should take into account the …
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SINGAPORE'S BEVERIDGE CURVE : A Comparative Study of the Unemployment and Vacancy Relationship for Selected East Asian Countries
Teo, Edward; Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Quah, Elizabeth - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between unemployment (U) and job vacancies (V) in the Singapore labour market …
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