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the formal pensions sytem. Further, the less risk tolerant choose private individual retirement accounts over a publicly …
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The article gives an overview on the pension system in Spain, analyzing both the public and the private system. Public reform processes from a global perspective are reviewed, which mainly are made from the standpoint of sustainability, to the detriment of adequacy and sufficiency. These two...
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countries studied, recommendations have been explored that could help reduce the level of vulnerability at the retirement stage …
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We analyze the potential costs of longevity risk and highlight the importance of updated mortality tables
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pensions, which are most closely related to the management of the risks of an aging population, have for a number of years …. In another exercise, using the mortality table estimated in this work, we found that if pensions in Chile are not to lose …
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: vulnerability to poverty, investment, and consumption smoothing. Even though we cannot find a significant effect on vulnerability …
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The aging process we are witnessing in the majority of developed countries is raising financial sustainability problems in the pay-as-you-go pension system. The reforms designed to re-establish the financial equilibrium of pension systems may put one of the most important objectives of these...
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Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to...
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-contributory) pensions in Europe. We use data from the household survey EU-SILC and focus on 17 countries. We simulate - in a static … framework - the introduction of two social pension schemes: universal and means tested social pensions. We see that the old … have few other income sources than pensions. On the opposite, it costs less. In fact, the means test reduces substantially …
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including contributory pensions and social allowances on consumption expenditure of receiving households, and subsequently … investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social … allowances increase expenditure of households, especially expenditure on non-food consumption. Pensions have a higher effect on …
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