higher-return tax-advantaged private pensions and in housing. Second, we find that only the most patient households achieve …

Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions … equity, and reduce labor market distortions. We illustrate this type of integration with the case of old-age pensions which …

applied to study welfare and savings implications of automatic enrolment into private pensions. The default option effect on …

Projections show public pensions to take an increasing share of GDP. This has lead to increased activity in the reform …

Ageing gives rise to concern about the sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension systems. One reform option suggested is …

This paper uses the theory of ‘capital as power’ to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States …. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be ‘reformed’ because they are ‘under funded’, I argue that … enormous investment fees associated with it. I propose that the deconstruction of public pensions is part of a larger effort to …