We describe the current state and recent trends in the landscape of social security programs in China, Mexico, and India. A common thread across these countries is the introduction and recent expansion of old-age pension programs with noncontributory components. We use surveys from the...

Korean Abstract: 중국 농촌 소비시장이 급성장하고 있다. 최근 10년 동안 농촌주민의 소비증가율과 평균소비성향은 도시주민의 수준을 초과하고 있으며 품목별 소비패턴도 도시주민의 패턴을 빠르게 닮아가고 있다. 이러한...

We study the sensitivity of analyses on income and wealth to the methods of imputation for missing data. We do so by implementing a conditional hot-deck imputation, based on the method used by the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, in the Health and Retirement Study. We compare marginal and...

Continued improvements in life expectancy and fiscal insolvency of public pensions have led to an increase in pension entitlement ages in several countries, but its consequences for subjective well-being are largely unknown.Financial consequences of retirement complicate the estimation of...

This paper summarizes and compares measures of chronic diseases and medical conditions in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the Korean...

Korean Abstract: 중소기업 적합업종 지정제도(이하 ‘적합업종제도')의 경제적 실효성 논란은 도입시기부터 3년이 지난 지금까지 지속적으로 제기되어 왔다. 업종 선정에 수반되는 사전적인 검증과정이 업계의 동의를 이끌어 낼...

China's rural consumer market has exhibited extraordinary growth. Over the past decade, the consumption growth rate and average propensity to consume of rural residents have surpassed those of their urban counterparts, with the former's consumption patterns becoming increasingly similar to the...