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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to the global economy and forced policymakers to respond to the newly created challenges. Many policy institutions have therefore had to rethink their established approaches and their usual policy responses.
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Social partners, trade unions and employer associations have been involved in most changes to the corporatist welfare state of Germany. In 2001, the government enacted a pension reform to replace the generous but - due to demographic constraints - unsustainable pay-as-you-go public pension...
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Is the historical development of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program unique or similar to the development of social security programs in other industrialized countries? The U.S. Social Security program was adopted some 40 to 50 years after those of most Western...
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Women's labor force participation and earnings dramatically increased after World War II. Those changes have important implications for women's Social Security benefits. This article uses the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the Near Term (version 6) to examine Social Security...
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Using data from the first three waves of the Understanding America Study, the authors examine how public knowledge of the Social Security retirement program helps individuals to make optimal decisions about saving and the timing of benefit claiming. They use descriptive statistics to highlight...
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This report lays out a strategy for Ukraine to make the transition to a market economy in the social sectors, taking …
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improvement of the non-state pension provision of Ukraine in the system of strengthening social security and preventing the … non-state pension provision in Ukraine and the behavioural aspects of its beneficiaries when choosing a financial …-state pension provision in Ukraine; disclosure of problems, obstacles, and major shortcomings of an organizational and legal nature …
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Using the data from a supplement to the 2009 RLMS - HSE, we aim to reveal what preferences and constraints determine the choice between formal and informal employment and between selfemployment and wage employment. We depart from the most commonly used approach that relates informality to the...
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