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Demographic change across the globe maintaining social security in ageing economies
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2011
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labour marketspace for fifty … started using their space in anticipation to higher demographic pressure is rejected. Raising the retirement age in developed … economies by five years alleviates the pressure by almost 30% and creates 10% more labour market space. …
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Aging and Retirement : Evidence Across Countries
Profeta, Paola - 2004
How do demographic factors influence retirement? Using a large cross-country data set, I show that in countries with a … larger share of elderly in their population the length of retirement is longer. This result holds true if I control for … retirement age. Retirement policies and the social security size are strictly related: a new variable, representing the aggregate …
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Demographic Change Across the Globe - Maintaining Social Security in Ageing Economies
Peeters, Marga - 2012
started using their space in anticipation to higher demographic pressure is rejected. Raising the retirement age in developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113360
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908404
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289471
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911179
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Social Protection Floors Volume 3 : Governance and Financing
Ortiz, Isabel; Schmitt, Valérie; De, Loveleen - 2017
Brazil and South Africa, labour inspection in China, registration in Colombia and Thailand and several innovations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123433
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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?
Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006
Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061671