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overall effect of the noncontributory pension scheme implies a substantial reduction in national savings …
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In the last decades, the pension system in Argentina has experienced important changes that included the introduction of an individual account defined-contribution component (or individual capitalisation) in 1994 and its subsequent reversal to a defined benefit pay-as-you-go pension scheme in...
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Income transfers from social programs are often not gender neutral and should, according to the vast literature on intra-household decision making and allocation, affect the distribution of bargaining power within the household. This result, however, was by and large established under the...
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the new system is young, the number of beneficiaries is small, mostly recipients of survivorship and disability pensions … department to study private pension funds and contractual savings …
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Social security-pension system reforms were one of the main areas of social policy changes in Latin America during the 80s and 90s. Apparently, the debate and design of the reforms implicitly assumed that they were neutral in terms of their effect on men and women. This article discusses...
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indicators in its history, and the pensions system was not immune from this disaster, which was unparalleled in any middle …-income developing country. In 1994 the pensions system was restructured, and was regarded as a viable model for other reforms elsewhere …. This article discusses in general terms the features of the current pensions scheme, the structural problems that were not …
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This paper describes the recent reforms of pension policies adopted by Argentina and Chile. The structural reforms in the 1980s and 90s were targeted on improving the long term fiscal sustainability of the system and their institutional design, while transferring part of the economic and social...
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We propose alternative methods to project pension rights and implement them in Chile and Uruguay and partially in Argentina. We use incomplete work histories databases from the social security administrations to project entire lifetime work histories. We first fit linear probability and duration...
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This study is aimed mainly to examine the possible existence of a relationship between the nominal interest rate and the inflation rate in developing countries (Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Korea and Turkey) coming up from a common nonlinear trend between both series. Evidence is first...
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