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Building an inclusive social protection system in South Africa

Fall, Falilou; Steenkamp, Andre - 2020

the old-age population has decent income. Only 40% of employees are contributing to a form of saving-retirement scheme …

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Euro area unemployment insurance at the time of zero nominal interest rates

Claveres, Guillaume; Strasky, Jan - 2018

The discussion about a fiscal stabilisation capacity as a way of providing more fiscal integration in the euro area has strengthened in the aftermath of the European sovereign debt crisis. Among the instruments that can be used for temporary macroeconomic stabilisation in the presence of both...

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Overcoming vulnerability of unemployment insurance schemes

Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2014

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It is a volatile spending item by design, which can lead to vulnerabilities. This paper explores various shocks and sources of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes...

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Vulnerability of social institutions : lessons from the recent crisis and historical episodes

Fall, Falilou; Pisu, Mauro; Pareliussen, Jon K.; Bloch, … - 2014

The recent economic crisis has provided a stress test for the vulnerability of social institutions. This paper assesses the vulnerability of social institutions in light of the current crisis, and surveys past episodes, when social institutions faced similar challenges. Public pay-as-you-go...

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Labour supply of older people in advanced economies : the impact of changes to statutory retirement ages

Geppert, Christian; Guillemette, Yvan; Morgavi, Hermes; … - 2019

educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …

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Labour market reform in Japan to cope with a shrinking and ageing population

Jones, Randall Sidney; Seitani, Haruki - 2019

would enable Japan to better utilise its human capital. Abolishing the right of firms to set mandatory retirement …

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Revisiting the effect of statutory pension ages on the participation rate

Turner, David; Morgavi, Hermes - 2020

surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …

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Addressing labour market challenges in Belgium

McGowan, Muge Adalet; Hijzen, Alexander; Law, David; … - 2020

Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates remain low, reflecting barriers to finding a job such as low levels of skills and weak work incentives. In addition, the changing nature of work will require faster adaptation of...

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Boosting productivity in Russia : skills, education and innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2015

The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...

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The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on financial incentives to work and poverty in Lithuania

Navicke, Jekaterina; Avram, Silvia; Demmou, Lilas - 2016

In 2015 the Lithuanian government launched an ambitious Social Model reform agenda aimed at balancing flexibility of the labour market and security provided through the system of social protection. We simulate alternative scenarios for reforming the unemployment benefit and cash social...

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