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The demographic database of Istat (www.istat.it)is explored and the main facts are extracted and described, both at the aggregate national level as well as at the regional one. This paper is completely self-standing but, at the same time, poses the basis for a more general analysis that will be...
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The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
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Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...
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percentages for abating the old retributive pensions taking into account the distance from the effective age /seniority at …
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Since the early 90's, the Federal Planning Bureau assesses the sustainability of pensions in Belgium. Since a couple of … years, it uses a dynamic microsimulation model, MIDAS_BE, to assess the development of the adequacy of pensions. This …
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have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health care provisions and pensions. This paper is completely self …
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While other regions — Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America in particular — have been active in pension reform, the Middle East and North Africa have lagged behind. In part this is because of the belief that favourable mean financial problems are still far in the future and pension...
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Reforming pensions is one of the biggest challenges of the century. All OECD countries have to adjust to the ageing of … pensions but the increases necessary to compensate for ageing are so large that one cannot rely on them alone. Most OECD … calculation methods and adjustment of paid-out pensions make it very difficult to compare pension policies across countries …
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This second edition of Pensions at a Glance updates all the important indicators of retirement-income systems developed … private pensions, which use the OECD pension models to explore more deeply the central issues of pension policy in national … between pension benefit and pre-retirement earnings, from mandatory pensions is 58.7%. But taxes play an important role in old …
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US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA...
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