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Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

There is enormous public confusion (much of it deliberately cultivated) about the extent of Social Security’s projected shortfall. Many policymakers and analysts point out that projections from the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security Trustees show the program to be out of...

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Immigration Control & Long-Run Population Welfare

Aslanyan, Gurgen - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2012

The current study assesses the effects of immigration control on the welfare of the current and future population of a host economy. A theoretical model of a small open economy populated with overlapping generations of heterogeneous agents is used to show that skillfavouring immigration policies...

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The Future of the Pension System: Parametric Changes or Change of Paradigm?

Nazarov, Vladimir - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2012

The principal objective of this paper is to discuss shortcomings of the current paradigm of provision of the retirement income. The main conclusion is that in post-industrial society the traditional pension system, a mandatory and comprehensive earnings related scheme, should be replaced by a...

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Ageing, Inequality and Social Security in Mexico: A Micro-Simulation Approach

Antón, José-Ignacio - In: Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA XXI (2012) 2, pp. 277-296

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of ageing on labor and pension income distribution in Mexico under different scenarios of social security coverage. Static and accounting micro-simulations are used to build synthetic populations in 2025 and 2050. The main findings of the work are,...

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Redistributive effects of different pension structures when longevity varies by socioeconomic status in a general equilibrium setting

Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Lee, Ronald Demos; … - 2019

Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many countries. Such longevity gaps affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of public pension systems. However, behavioral responses to longevity and policy complicate...

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Von der Grundrente zum Lebenserwartungsfaktor

Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Seuffert, Stefan - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 100 (2020) 10, pp. 774-781

expansive measures and introduces a measure aiming towards increased fiscal sustainability. The two measures consist of the … pension scheme. Both measures increase the sustainability gap by 10% of GDP and will oppose the fundamental principles of the … retirement which could potentially reduce the pension system’s sustainability gap by half of the initial magnitude. …

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Calculating the redistributive impact of pension systems in LAC

Altamirano, Alvaro; Oliveri, María Laura; Bosch Mossi, … - 2023

This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. We first calculate the theoretical benefits of pension for hypothetical workers in 25 countries in LAC. We show that, on average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they...

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Political economy of pension reforms : selected general issues and the Polish pension reform case

Góra, Marek - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

The institutional structures of the various types of European welfare state were established around extra revenues called the "demographic dividend" that used to be easily available throughout the decades of the 20st century. They, however, ceased to be available at the end of that century. The...

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Welfare Activation and Youth Crime

Bratsberg, Bernt - 2018

We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance clients. The evaluation strategy exploits administrative individual data in combination with geographically differentiated implementation of the reform. We find that the reform...

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Thinking About Pension Systems for the 21st Century : A Few Remarks Based on the Polish Example

Góra, Marek - 2018

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