Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 93
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries
Scarpetta, Stefano - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million people unemployed in the OECD area as a whole, some 6 million more than in the mid-1980s and almost 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944045
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Argentina
Rozada, Martín González; Ronconi, Lucas; Ruffo, Hernán - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943634
Cover Image
The Unemployment Subsidy Program in Colombia: An Assessment
Tamayo, Jorge Andrés; Núñez, Jairo; Medina, Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of the Colombian Unemployment Subsidy (US), which includes benefits as well as training for some recipients. Using regression discontinuity and matching differences-in-differences estimators, the study finds that participation in the labor market, earnings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943773
Cover Image
Taxation and Economic Growth in Latin America
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943781