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Dynamic incentives in retirement earnings-replacement benefits

Dean, Andrés; Fleitas, Sebastian; Zerpa, Mariana - 2020

Many defined-benefit pension systems in developed and developing countries use a small set of final years of earnings to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career. In this paper, we document the responses of...

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Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

Dean, Andres; Fleitas, Sebastian; Zerpa, Mariana - 2020

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Self-Employment in Italy : The Role of Social Security Wealth

Borella, Margherita - 2016

Using a rich micro dataset drawn from administrative archives, we explore whether Social Security Wealth (SSW) is an important factor affecting the decision to become self-employed in Italy. We focus on the two main categories of self-employed professions covered by the Italian public pension...

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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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Brazilian population and the social security system : reform alternatives

Beltrão, Kaizô Iwakami; Pinheiro, Sonoê Sugahara - 2015

This study analyses the situation of the Brazilian population vis-à-vis the Social Security System (SSS) using data from PNAD. We chose the 1982, 1992 and 2002 PNAD data to give a series of pictures of the Brazilian population at equal intervals but under different legal instances with respect...

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Brazilian Population and the Social Security System : Reform Alternatives

Beltrao, Kaizo I.; Pinheiro, Sonoe S. - 2005

This study analyses the situation of the Brazilian population vis-a-vis the Social Security System (SSS) using data from PNAD. We chose the 1982, 1992 and 2002 PNAD data to give a series of pictures of the Brazilian population at equal intervals but under different legal instances with respect...

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Chasing informality : evidence from increasing enforcement in large firms in Peru

Bosch Mossi, Mariano; González, Stephanie; Silva- … - 2021

Evasion of labor market regulations in middle income countries is systemic. This is generally known as informality. In … social security contributions. In this study we analyze the role of enforcement in curbing informality in large formal firms … in Peru, where informality levels are around 70%. Through the Peruvian National Labor Control Superintendence (SUNAFIL …

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Who is covered and who underreports : an empirical analysis of access to social insurance on the Egyptian labor market

Roushdy, Rania; Selwaness, Irene - 2017

This paper investigates the dynamics and determinants of having access to social insurance coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage and non-wage workers. The paper explores two issues: the worker- and enterprise- level determinants of having access to social insurance and the risk of...

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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute

Forteza, Alvaro - 2015

Social security programs generally seek to provide insurance and to reduce poverty and inequality. Providing insurance requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality, programs must redistribute income, but...

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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 countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...

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