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order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness of the retirement system. Using administrative tax micro … of contributions). The reform was not effective at mitigating the regressive impact of the retirement system because the … number of individuals contributing to retirement funds increased relatively more for top earners, and it has also exacerbated …
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How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal employment in the context of low- and...
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We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth dependence using a nationally representative longitudinal household survey covering the period 2011-13. We adopt an instrumental quantile regression-discontinuity design to address...
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Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
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Over the past two decades, many Latin American countries have expanded the economic protection of older adults by developing non-contributory pensions or making eligibility rules more flexible. These policies have addressed long-standing coverage gaps in Latin American pension systems and...
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We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa to evaluate ex ante the expansion of a universal oldage pension in a static setting. Universal pensions would significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings in...
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The provision of a universal old age pension is increasingly recognized as an important instrument for strengthening and extending social protection. A growing number of emerging economies, including East African countries, are introducing universal old age pensions to guarantee at least a basic...
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, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …
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reduction policy in parts of South Africa's second-largest city, Cape Town, to investigate the mortality effects of load … policy statistically significantly reduces mortality in Cape Town relative to other parts of South Africa experiencing …
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mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …
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