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The extension of social security coverage in developing countries

Jung, Jürgen; Tran, Chung - In: Journal of development economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 439-458

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Population aging, pension systems, and economic growth : applying an overlapping generations model to the informal sector

Temsumrit, Navarat - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 305-341

This paper analyzes the eﬀects of an unfunded pension system on economic growth using an extended overlapping generations model to include the informal sector. Emerging countries usually have a more signiﬁcant informal sector than advanced ones. The ﬁndings based on the Thai economy data...

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Pension design with a large informal labor market : evidence from Chile

Joubert, Clement - 2014

This paper investigates empirically the fiscal and welfare trade-offs involved in designing a pension system when …

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Pension programs around the world : determinants of social pension

Rudolph, Alexandra - 2016

Old-age poverty is to become one of the most pressing issues in the coming decades given the demographic trends forecasted. Particularly in developing countries this could be an obstacle to inclusive and sustainable growth as well as the fight against all forms of poverty (SDG 1), through shocks...

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Grandfathers and grandsons : social security expansion and child health in China

Yang, Jinyang; Chen, Xi - 2022

We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over age 60 are eligible to receive a minimum of 70 CNY non-contributory monthly pension. We leverage...

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Pension schemes and labor supply in the formal and informal sector

Ceni, Rodrigo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 8, pp. 1-29

This paper analyzes the participation path of workers in the formal and informal sectors throughout their lives and their pension eligibilities, as well as how the social security scheme can change the aforementioned participation path. High levels of informality have impacts on the benefits...

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Nudging the self-employed into contributing to social security : evidence from a nationwide quasi experiment in Brazil

Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Fernandes, Danilo; Villa, Juan M. - 2015

This paper studies the first large scale effort by the Brazilian government to increase the social security compliance of self-employed workers using behavioral interventions. In 2014, the Brazilian Ministry of Social Security gradually delivered by postal mail a booklet reminding nearly 3...

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Saving social security

Lane, Edward - 2024

For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...

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Differential mortality and the progressivity of social security

Bagchi, Shantanu - 2016

I examine if the positive correlation between wealth and survivorship has any implications for the progressivity of Social Security's current benefit-earnings rule. Using a general-equilibrium macroeconomic model calibrated to the U.S. economy, I show that the optimal benefit-earnings link for...

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On welfare effects of increasing retirement age

Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the … the majority of welfare effects comes from adjustments in taxes and/or prices. After the transition period, welfare … although incentives differ between defined benefit and defined contribution systems, the welfare effects are of comparable …

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