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Colombia is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America. The high level of informality in the labour market and many characteristics of the pension system leave many elderly in poverty. Only formal-sector employees earning more than the relatively high minimum wage are covered. Linking...
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by the removal of the pathways to early retirement. In order to allow people to work longer, labour market flexibility …
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efficiency without undermining the quality of in kind services on secondary education, health care and public administration … regressive. The delivery of health care could be improved by rationalising inpatient care and enhancing costeffective primary … care, which would generate savings in the medium term. Further increasing the effective retirement age and reforming the …
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A rapid decrease in unemployment is a short-term priority to limit social problems and reduce the risk of rising structural unemployment. To this end, strengthening labour market policies to sustain labour demand is key. The public works programme should remain temporary and become more focused...
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population ageing. The pension system relies largely on mandatory private retirement saving, which will moderate the long … for the rest of the population, and its efficiency in securing and valuing these retirement savings to guarantee pension …
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surprisingly modest when translated into the implied effect on average retirement ages: an increase in statutory pension ages by … one year is typically estimated to increase the average effective retirement age by only about two months. …
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educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is attributable to changes in statutory retirement ages, although part of the … reason these effects are not larger is that in most countries, statutory retirement ages have not kept pace with life … retirement pathways through unemployment or disability schemes has been a major factor in the turnaround in the participation …
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pensions, health and long-term care under high pressure. The paper provides recommendations on policy responses to address … pensions, incentivising private savings, enhancing the efficiency of health care provision, expanding the coverage of social …
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This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections until 2060, seven years after … a first set of projections was published by the OECD. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure, as well as … country coverage. Regarding health care, nondemographic drivers are identified, with an attempt to better understand the …
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This article analyses age differences in several labour market outcomes in France for participants of intensive case management programmes, delivered in 2009 and 2010 by the public employment service (PES) or private providers. These programmes are different from the intensive case management...
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