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Pensions, informatlity, and the emerging middle class : getting the incentives right for firms and workers should be the priority in the labor formalization agenda
Melguizo, Ángel - 2015
A large share of the population in emerging market economies has no pension coverage, exposing them to the economic risks arising from socio-economic and individual shocks. This problem, which arises from having large informal (unregulated) sectors, affects not only poor workers, but as many as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432174
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056561
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Size and distributional pattern of pension-related tax expenditures in European countries
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Coda Moscarola, Flavia; … - 2018
Policy discussions on pension systems generally focus on their sustainability and design, including retirement age, income reference and contributory period, with relatively little attention devoted to the tax treatment of pension contributions and pension benefits. However, tax expenditures -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926103
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Social policy reforms and economic distances in China, 2002-2013
Gao, Qin; Yang, Sui; Zhai, Fuhua; Wang, Yake - 2017
, and migrant household sectors. We find that over the years pensions in the urban areas consistently helped narrow the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876634
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758233
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746805
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740362
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Poverty, vulnerability and the middle class in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - 2015
paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290941
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Poverty, vulnerability, and the middle class in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 25 (2016), pp. 1-44
paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885651