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Personal Opinions about the Social Security System and Informal Employment : Evidence from Bulgaria

Perotti, Valeria; Puerta, Sánchez; Laura, Maria - World Bank Group - 2009

In this paper the authors analyze the relationship between personal opinions about the social security system and levels of informal employment using data from a recent household survey carried out in Bulgaria. They compare different indicators of job informality, focusing on the lack of social...

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Building social protection and labor systems : concepts and operational implications

Robalino, David A.; Rawlings, Laura; Walker, Ian - World Bank Group - 2012

This paper presents a framework for designing and implementing social protection and labor (SP&L) systems in middle and low income countries. Although the term'system'is used to describe a country's set of social protection programs, these tend to operate independently with little or no...

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Labor markets in low and middle income countries : trends and implications for social protection and labor policies

Cho, Yoonyoung; Margolis, David N.; Robalino, David A. - World Bank Group - 2012

unemployment rates, and the need to manage migration flows and remittances. The paper then details a three pronged agenda based on …

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Public employment services, and activation policies

Kuddo, Arvo - World Bank Group - 2012

One of the responses to new challenges in the labor market has been the development and expansion of employment services and active labor market policies based on activation principles. The objective of this study is to document and review international experiences, predominantly from selected...

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Compulsory social security participation revealed preferences

Thanh, Trung; Castel, Paulette - World Bank Group - 2009

The study starts with a classification of the enterprises depending on their participation to the Vietnam social security. Among the enterprises that contribute, one striking feature is that on average the share in the wage bill of the contributions paid to the Vietnam social security is much...

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Voluntary pension system challenge of expanding coverage

Phuong, Nguyen Thi Thu; Castel, Paulette - World Bank Group - 2009

Since 1947, the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has provided social insurance to public servants and armed forces personnel in Vietnam. In 1995, the Government merged the social insurance unit of the Ministry of labour, invalids and social affairs with that of the Vietnam General Confederation of...

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Skilled labor flows : lessons from the European Union

Kahanec, Martin - World Bank Group - 2013

EU enlargements and from the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) countries. The study concludes that migration generally … economically relevant negative aggregate effects of migration on receiving labor markets. While outflow of young and skilled … workers may pose risks to sending countries'economic prospects and public finance, circular migration, brain gain, and …

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Improving access to jobs and earnings opportunities : the role of activation and graduation policies in developing countries

Almeida, Rita; Arbelaez, Juliana; Honorati, Maddalena; … - World Bank Group - 2012

Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to facilitate access of the most vulnerable individuals to jobs, while reducing their dependency from public income support schemes. Even though these policies are common to both the activation and...

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Tailoring social protection to small island developing states : lessons learned from the Caribbean

Williams, Asha; Cheston, Timothy; Coudouel, Aline; … - World Bank Group - 2013

This paper examines the role of social protection (SP) in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), given their particular structural, human resource and capacity constraints. While it focuses on SIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean, thelessons may be relevant to other SIDS with similar...

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Youth employment : a human development agenda for the next decade

Robalino, David; Margolis, David; Rother, Friederike; … - World Bank Group - 2013

This paper reviews the main challenges facing countries in attempting to improve labor market outcomes among youth, focusing on the issues that became starkly visible during the recent financial crisis. In order to better identify and set uphuman development interventions, the paper proposes an...

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