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Increasing social insurance coverage in Viet Nam's SMEs
Castel, Paulette; Pick, Alexander - 2018
Viet Nam has made significant progress in expanding social insurance coverage in recent years. However, coverage amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains very low and very few workers in this sector are expected to receive a pension in retirement. Drawing on two datasets for...
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Transfers and Labor Market Behavior of the Elderly in Developing Countries : Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Tran, Chung; Jung, Juergen - 2010
-out effect of public pensions on the elderly’s retirement decision. Using data from a household survey in Vietnam we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217212
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THE WELFARE STATE: VIETNAMESE DEVELOPMENT AND SWEDISH EXPERIENCES
Kokko, Ari; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2007
reference to Sweden's historical experiences of economic and social development. While Vietnam has achieved remarkable success …
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The Impact of Social Security on Household Welfare: Evidence from a Transition Country
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social …
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Determinants of Elderly Poverty in Vietnam
Giang, Thanh Long; Pfau, Wade Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
By using household data in 2004, this paper identifies the determinants of the elderly poverty in Vietnam. We find that …
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Ageing, Poverty, and the Role of a Social Pension in Vietnam
LONG, GIANG THANH; PFAU, WADE DONALD - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) - 2008
By using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2004, this paper seeks to quantify the potential role and … impacts of a social pension scheme for reducing elderly poverty in Vietnam. We simulate how the poverty rate, poverty gap, and … to Vietnam in the past. We consider a number of categorical targeting groups of elderly people along with various …
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
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The welfare state evolves: German Knappschaften, 1854 - 1923
Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2010
This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....
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Das agrarsoziale Sicherungssystem in Frankreich: Zentrale Merkmale und Entwicklungen aus der Perspektive der landwirtschaftlichen Sozialversicherung in Deutschland
Mehl, Peter - 2011
Eine vergleichende Analyse der agrarsozialen Sicherungssysteme in Deutschland und Frankreich, die auch eine vergleichende Bewertung der Systeme aus der Perspektive der versicherten Landwirte enthält, ist trotz einiger Parallelen zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Sozialversicherung (LSV) und...
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