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Early retirement of workers is used by firms as means to rejuvenate their workforces. In principle, workers can either simply be laid off or can be offered an early retirement option combined with a financial bonus. However, dismissing masses of older workers may be detrimental to social peace...
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and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health care provisions and pensions. This …
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have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health care provisions and pensions. This paper is completely self …
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The demographic database of Istat (www.istat.it)is explored and the main facts are extracted and described, both at the aggregate national level as well as at the regional one. This paper is completely self-standing but, at the same time, poses the basis for a more general analysis that will be...
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While other regions — Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America in particular — have been active in pension reform, the Middle East and North Africa have lagged behind. In part this is because of the belief that favourable mean financial problems are still far in the future and pension...
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Reforming pensions is one of the biggest challenges of the century. All OECD countries have to adjust to the ageing of … pensions but the increases necessary to compensate for ageing are so large that one cannot rely on them alone. Most OECD … calculation methods and adjustment of paid-out pensions make it very difficult to compare pension policies across countries …
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This second edition of Pensions at a Glance updates all the important indicators of retirement-income systems developed … private pensions, which use the OECD pension models to explore more deeply the central issues of pension policy in national … between pension benefit and pre-retirement earnings, from mandatory pensions is 58.7%. But taxes play an important role in old …
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The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
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Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility, across country borders but also within the countries of the European Union. From a macroeconomic perspective, and in the light of demographic pressure, this paper argues that...
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lump sums with the risk that people outlive their resources. Finally, pensions in payment are not automatically adjusted to …
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