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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
to both health insurance and pensions for independent workers using a difference-in-differences strategy. Second, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492946
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Melhores aposentadorias, melhores trabalhos : Em direção à cobertura universal na América Latina e no Caribe Title: Mejores pensiones mejores trabajos: Hacia la cobertura universal...
Bosch, Mariano; Melguizo, Ángel; Pages, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank
, new problems appear that economic policymakers must address. How to provide adequate pensions for the elderly is one such … only in the lack of coverage, but also in the low level of benefits, even of contributory pensions. It argues that to … design public policies for pensions, it is essential to understand the complex web of interactions between employers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895443
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An Assessment of Pension System Reform in Uruguay in 1995
Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
In 1995, the government of Uruguay undertook a first pillar-based reform of the pension system, as opposed to the second pillar-based Chilean-style reform. The paper's first section describes Uruguay's pension system prior to reform. It demonstrates quite clearly that the crisis faced by that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352035
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The Political Economy of Reform in Brazil's Civil Servant Pension Scheme
Medici, André - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This technical note discusses the civil servant pension system in Brazil over the past two decades. Since 1998 the Brazilian government has been implementing reforms to increase the financial sustainability of its pension schemes - seeking to contain pension deficits without hurting acquired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357888
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New Policies for Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions: Industrial Organization Models and Investment Products
García-Huitrón, Manuel; Impavido, Gregorio; … - Inter-American Development Bank
contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii) describes how jurisdictions have tried to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772396
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Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World
Phillips, Katherin Ross; Gertler, Paul; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Inter-American Development Bank
Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772355
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
to both health insurance and pensions for independent workers using a difference-in-differences strategy. Second, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655326
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Aggregate Effects of a Universal Social Insurance Fiscal Reform
Antón, Arturo; Leal, Julio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper analyzes the aggregate effects of a revenue neutral fiscal-cum-social policy reform in a typical developing country that consists of two main changes: (1) the implementation of universal social insurance to replace the current dual social protection system (i.e., a reconfiguration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944039
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A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Masci, Pietro; Crabbe, Carolin A.; Ríos, Guillermo Larraín - Inter-American Development Bank; The Principal …
This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772422
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An Assessment of Pension System Reform in Uruguay in 1995
Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
In 1995, the government of Uruguay undertook a first pillar-based reform of the pension system, as opposed to the second pillar-based Chilean-style reform. The paper's first section describes Uruguay's pension system prior to reform. It demonstrates quite clearly that the crisis faced by that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653409