En Colombia y en otros países del mundo hay problemas de ahorro, en particular, los sistemas de ahorro voluntario pensional tienen baja cobertura. Dentro de este contexto, esta investigación pretende evaluar si algunos enfoques de la teoría del comportamiento que aplican para el análisis del...

La decisión de los individuos acerca del ahorro para el retiro ha sido abordada teóricamente bajo la hipótesis de que el sistema de seguridad social se comporta como un sustituto de otros mecanismos de ahorro. Este documento presenta evidencia de los determinantes y patrones de ahorro para el...

In this article I review the current state of our knowledge of what factors account for labor income and wealth inequality among households. In particular, I stress that shocks to labor incomes suffice to generate observable differences between the wealth of the households. (Copyright:...

The debate on the reform of the pension system in Spain is not very lively, in contrast with the international experience. The Spanish economic boom since the mis nineties, the slowdown in the number of pensioners due to the retirement of the cohorts born during the Civil War, and the...

This paper describes the current functioning of the retirement system in Bolivia. In addition, I rise scenarios related to old age benefit considering the quinueros; which means projections to the pension amounts that they (quinoa producers) could obtain based on the frequency of contributions,...

This document carries out an exhaustive review of the literature, at the microeconomic level, on mainly behavioral problems aimed at promoting voluntary savings for old age (retirement). The different mechanisms and/or tools described have been designed to promote this type of savings,...

The aim of this study is to estimate the future amount of pensions and replacement rate of the individuals affiliated in the Peruvian private pension system. I use Montecarlo simulations that consider independent stochastic processes for the return rate, wage growth, and discount rate of the...

This paper evaluates the impact caused by attaching a personalized pension projection (PPP), to the annually report of pension savings. This PPP shows the revenues obtained by the workers when postponing their retirement three years after the legal age for retirement in the Chilean pension...