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Retirement : Can Pension Reform Reverse the Trend to Earlier Retirement?
World Bank - 2012
This edition of the Pension Reform Primer examines the global trend in early retirement among rich and poorer countries …, the reasons for people retiring early, the burden of early retirement on the pension system, recent policy initiatives to … between early retirement and incentives in the pension system, a result confirmed by other international studies and by more …
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India - Living Conditions and Human Development in Uttar Pradesh : A Regional Perspective
World Bank - 2013
Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India, has 170 million inhabitants who represent 16.2 percent of India's population. Uttar Pradesh (UP) is classified as one of the 'lagging states of India' for its slow growth, low human development indicators and high concentration of the poor. UP occupies...
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Dividing the spoils : pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition
Kapstein, Ethan B. - 2000
The gains from the transition in post-communist Russia were captured by the new managerial class, which won rents from … industrial restructuring. With neither pension reform nor industrial restructuring, Russia's economy has continued to shrink … pays little to pensioners (as in Russia).The authors apply this model to Russia for the period 1992-96. An empirical …
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Russian Federation - Regional development and growth agglomerations : the longer term challenges of economic transition in the Russian Federation
World Bank - 2012
As Russia continues to make rapid general progress in building modem market institutions, the complex spatial dimension … related to the question of what type of a national regional strategy, if any, might be useful for Russia. …
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Regional labor market developments in transition
Huber, Peter - 2006
"The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil
Chomitz, Kenneth M. (contributor) - 2005
"There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than...
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China's pension system : a vision
Dorfman, Mark C. - 2013
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General trends in competition policy and investment regulation in mandatory defined contribution markets in Latin America
Dayoub, Mariam - 2008
"Following Chile's pension reform in 1981, a wave of multi-pillar pension reforms took place in Latin America (LAC). Their implementation has revealed new policy challenges. To shed light on these issues, this paper reviews the structure and performance of mandatory DC pillars in LAC. The review...
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Competition and performance in the Polish second pillar
Rudolph, Heinz P. - 2007
This paper provides an assessment of the Polish funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for the accumulation phase. There are two elements that distinguish the Polish pension fund portfolios from other reforming countries': the relatively high component of domestic...
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