. When people retire, they could use their remaining UA balances to top up their pensions. Under the unemployment benefit …

This paper deals with two policy approaches to address the problem of the "pensions time bomb" by influencing private …-sector pension provision. In assessing the role of private-sector pensions, it is common to concentrate exclusively on the issue of … since private-sector pension arrangements have significant implications for governments' finances. When private pensions …

to intergenerational conflict. Let people with rights to public pensions have the option of using a portion of their … potential pensions to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The policy is entirely voluntary; only those … to draw their public pensions and the employers have the right not to employ them. In effect, the policy involves taking …

severance or unemployment-linked - and (ii) financing type - insurance or savings. In this four-way categorization, severance … savings accounts are the least familiar, perhaps because they are often mislabeled as unemployment insurance savings accounts … understanding program performance and consequences. Indeed insurance plan performance converges on that of savings plans as the …

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions … savings) and the redistributive function (transfers) of the social protection system in order to expand coverage, improve … equity, and reduce labor market distortions. We illustrate this type of integration with the case of old-age pensions which …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

design of health insurance, pensions, and unemployment benefits programs. Going forward, there a few general principles that … the case of savings programs), while providing better information and incentives to enroll. Second, relying on explicit …