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Social Security on Auto-Pilot : International Experience with Automatic Stabilizer Mechanisms
Bosworth, Barry - 2011
As the baby boom generation enters retirement, a long-forecast funding crisis of the Social Security system is about to become a reality. Many other high-income countries are faced with similar financial problems with their public pension systems. Some of those countries have adopted legislative...
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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform : Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
Holzmann, Robert - 2012
Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide financial crisis and the adjustment to an uncertain “new normal” will make future pension systems...
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2019 World Pensions Forum Held in EU Capital Before G7 Summit
Firzli, M. Nicolas J. - 2020
The 8th World Pensions Forum was held 23-24 May: 130 pension executives and supranational experts representing $12 trillion in combined assets convened in Brussels to discuss “Effective Asset Ownership”. The Forum was pleased to note that some of our ideas were taken up by the Finnish...
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Chapter 13. Social Security and Public Insurance
Börsch-Supan, A.; Härtl, K.; Leite, D.N. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 781-863). 2016
When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a “consensus view” on social security and public insurance in aging populations but to put structure...
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New legal standards for investment policy of open pension funds
Jakubowski, Sebastian - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 15 (2015) 1, pp. 75-91
The global financial crisis affected also Polish pension market. Low or negative rate return on pension capital accumulated in Open Pension Funds led to social disappointment and growth of feeling of social insecurity. Prolonged financial crisis together with sluggish economic growth forced...
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Social security: perspectives for reform
Pechman, Joseph A.; Aaron, Henry J.; Taussig, Michael Karl - 1968
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Social Security Reform and Male Labor Force Participation Around the World
Finlay, Jocelyn - 2011
The goal of this paper is to carefully document the characteristics of within-family monetary transfers in the United States, using all nine waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using the HRS, we construct a novel child-level longitudinal dataset and augment it with detailed...
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Privatizing Pensions : The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform
Orenstein, Mitchell A - 2008
Privatization -- CHAPTER TWO: Evaluating the Impact of Transnational Actors -- CHAPTER THREE: A Model of Transnational Actor … Influence -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Transnational Campaign for Pension Privatization -- CHAPTER FIVE: Domestic Enactment of Pension … Privatization -- CHAPTER SIX: Transnational Influence and Its Limits -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Analyzing Transnational Public Policy …
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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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Public Sector Pensions : Rationale and International Experiences
Eich, Frank - 2010
This paper is about public sector pensions, an issue that has become increasingly contentious in a number of countries in recent years, including in the United Kingdom. In the UK the public debate has focussed on the perceived generosity of these pensions, which, it is often claimed, contrasts...
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