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Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J.; de Ervin, Lyliana; … - 2023

The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have … analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … more regressive in Paraguay. At the same time, the results of the simulations indicate small effects on income inequality …

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How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Testabove the Normal Retirement Age AffectRetirement Expectations?

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Soest, Arthur van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age(NRA) on retirement expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study(HRS). Using administrative records on Social Security benefit entitlements linked to the HRSsurvey data, we can...

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Is Social Security Secure with NDC?

Boeri, Tito - 2010

The introduction of NDC public pension scheme in few European countries, such as Latvia, Sweden, Italy, and Poland, in the nineties was motivated, among other things, by the need (i) to ensure the long term financial sustainability of the public pension system by linking pension returns to...

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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements Across Socio-Economic Groups

Basso, Gaetano - 2011

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...

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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Aterido, Reyes - 2011

Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...

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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China

Mu, Ren - 2014

When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a...

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Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Cremer, Helmuth - 2016

This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and productivity are negatively correlated. This condition is...

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Financing Social Security : Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany

Dieckhoener, Caroline - 2009

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...

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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor

Palacios, Robert J. - 2020

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...

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