Faced with the need to adjust public pension systems to meet changing demographic, economic and social conditions, most developed countries have created government reserve funds to ensure macroeconomic sustainability. This paper aims to study the importance that this reserve fund plays in the...

This paper has sought to establish and describe the manner in which Chile has addressed the problem of social marginality, the impossibility of that part of society, those who are in a position of absolute vulnerability can access on equal rights and better conditions to a network of benefits...

It is usually accepted that a pure NDC scheme is not adequate to protect individuals against the risk of poverty in old age, because it does not incorporate any redistribution of the system`s revenue. However, we show that insufficient coverage and weak social protection can be more serious...

In Uruguay, the pension programs cover over 90% of the elderly. Men are more likely to be eligible for the contributory pensions, while women are over-represented in the assistential and survivor pension programs. This difference is linked to the fact that women tend to have longer spells out of...

The objective of this paper is to understand the impact of immigration on the Spanish pension system during the next fifty years by building a quantitative theoretical framework. In order to carry out the exercise of projection of revenues and expenditures in the Spanish pension system, we have...

The activity rate of mature men has increased in Uruguay in recent decades. This trend is remarkably different from what has been observed in most developed and Latin American countries. We analyze in this paper the incentives to retire implicit in the main social security program of Uruguay. We...