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We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on … monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show … the employment effects occur through the relabeling of existing workers as workers with disabilities, and the remainder …
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benefits in the post-reform period. The consequences of leaving disability insurance differed sharply by pre-reform employment …Disability benefits provide social insurance against the risk of losing working capacity, as well as an important … of beneficiaries. Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss …
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This document presents a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad, a universal and non-contributory old age pension. Causal effects on direct, future, and indirect beneficiaries are identified, taking advantage of a reduction in age of eligibility from 65 to 60 years in...
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The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues. First, it presents new evidence on the relative importance of the two components of HCE that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier...
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We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...
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This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region’s...
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This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785771
This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. We first calculate the theoretical benefits of pension for hypothetical workers in 25 countries in LAC. We show that, on average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they...
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