Many Western countries with an aging population consider reforms of their pay-as-you-go pension systems. In Sweden a … new pension system has already been decided and implemented. This paper gives a brief background to the Swedish reforms in …

The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives … are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits …

unusually large variance in labor policy in Chile to examine how different labor market regulations affect the distribution of … employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross …-section household surveys spanning the period 1960-1998 and measures of the evolution of job security provisions and minimum wages …

This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the … suggest that, besides the high educational attainment of females, there are noticeable gender wage gaps in Chile favoring …

gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …