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Policy Issues for Developing Annuities Markets
Stewart, Fiona - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2007
Annuities are specifically designed to cover the risk that an individual outlives their own resources by transferring … such risk to an insurance undertaking. Despite an increasing need for annuity products (due to increasing longevity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011984
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Pension Policy in EU25 and its Possible Impact on Elderly Poverty
Fuchs, Michael; Grech, Aaron George; Zaidi, Asghar - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2006
affect risk of poverty for future pensioner populations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed considerably in the past … individuals. The paper includes exploratory projections of how the risk of elderly poverty might evolve in the future. The … countries where the benefit ratio is set to decline significantly, as expected, would see at-risk-poverty rates increase quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201281
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Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
Teulings, Coen N.; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255727
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Brazil on the global finance map: an analysis of the development of the Brazilian capital market
Dos Santos, Enestor - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2011
Latin America is enjoying a period of extensive growth. If this trend is to continue into the coming years, the key insufficiencies that could limit total factor productivity will have to be dealt with in order to prevent bottlenecks. One of these insufficiencies is the infrastructure gap. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385744
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A review of recent infrastructure investment in Latin America and the role of private pension funds
Dos Santos, Enestor; Torres Torres, Diego; Tuesta, David - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2011
Latin America is enjoying a period of extensive growth. If this trend is to continue into the coming years, the key insufficiencies that could limit total factor productivity will have to be dealt with in order to prevent bottlenecks. One of these insufficiencies is the infrastructure gap. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385745
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The determinants of savings in the third pension pillar
Stinglhamber, P.; Zachary, M.-D.; Wuyts, G.; Valenduc, Ch. - In: Economic Review (2007) III, pp. 97-113
The paper analyses participation in and contributions to the third pillar of the pension system by Belgian households. This pillar represents individual saving for retirement and has been growing rapidly. A detailed dataset of tax declarations over the period from 1993 until 2003 was used to...
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Private Pensions, Retirement Wealth and Lifetime Earnings
MacGee, James; Zhou, Jie - University of Western Ontario, Economic Policy Research … - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of private pensions on the retirement wealth distribution. The model incorporates stochastic private pension coverage into a life- cycle model with stochastic earnings. The predictions of the calibrated model are compared to the distribution of retirement net...
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EMPIRICAL STUDY REGARDING SUSTAINABILITY OF ROMANIAN PENSION SYSTEM
Delia, Oprean; Lucia, Podoaba - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 919-930
This paper is part of a broad, applied scientific research, based on popular empirical procedures (such as natural observation). Positivistic and constructive research methodology used was based on the consensual-inductive system (Locke), which is why we studied the different views of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685519
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EMPIRICAL STUDY REGARDING PRIVATE AND VOLUNTARY PENSIONS FUNDS FROM ROMANIA
Delia, Oprean; Lucia, Podoaba - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 2, pp. 339-348
This paper continues our scientific and practical research. The analysis of information collected, along with specialists opinions represent our positivistic research methodology used. Analysis the time evolution of the rate of return specified for private and voluntary pension funds, investment...
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Access to Full-Time Employment: Does Gender Matter?
Smith, Meg; Tannous, Kathy - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 16 (2013) 2, pp. 237-257
Women are participating in the labour market in higher proportions than in the past, with the female participation rate in June 2012 standing at 58.9 per cent. However, a gendered pattern of workforce engagement persists, particularly as it concerns part-time employment; 70 per cent all...
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