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Insecurities of the old and marginalized: Inflation, oil shocks, financial crisis and social security
Goyal, Ashima - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2009
The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to … reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typical savings cum pension portfolio and the …, which tend to increase with age, aggravate the psychological trauma associated with inflation. The decline of traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008590959
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Insecurities of the Old and Marginalized: Inflation, Oil Shocks, Financial Crisis and Social Security
Goyal, Ashima - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to … reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typical savings cum pension portfolio and the …, which tend to increase with age, aggravate the psychological trauma associated with inflation. The decline of traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042377
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Social Security's Five OASI Inflation Indexing Problems
Lovell, Michael C. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-3, pp. 1-41
States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivor Insurance (OASI) Benefits. Because of the … receives an annual benefit more than $1,800 larger than would have been generated with full indexing. While the inflation …-run financial instability for the OASI trust fund in periods of substantial inflation or deflation. They make the percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298623
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Social Security's Five OASI Inflation Indexing Problems
Lovell, Michael C. - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009), pp. 1-41
States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivor Insurance (OASI) Benefits. Because of the … receives an annual benefit more than $1,800 larger than would have been generated with full indexing. While the inflation …-run financial instability for the OASI trust fund in periods of substantial inflation or deflation. They make the percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082970
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How Well Are Social Security Recipients Protected From Inflation?
Shah Goda, Gopi; Shoven, John; Slavov, Sita - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2009
Social Security is widely believed to protect its recipients from inflation because benefits are indexed to the … which indexing Social Security benefits to the CPI-E, an experimental measure of inflation for the elderly, would change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616124
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Elderly Support in Oil Economies: How Sustainable in the 21st Century, with Illustrations from Kuwait.
Sirageldin, I.; Al-Rahmani, E. - Economic Research Forum (ERF) - 1999
Social Security (SS) programs are integral parts of a generous welfare system instituted in the oil economies during the past quarter century. This paper assesses the future viability of these programs with special reference to the case of Kuwait. A review of the financial structure of the SS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639355
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Analyzing how the social security reserve fund in Spain affects the sustainability of the pension system
Gómez-Déniz, Emilio; Pérez Rodríguez, Jorge V.; … - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 6, pp. 1-17
Faced with the need to adjust public pension systems to meet changing demographic, economic and social conditions, most developed countries have created government reserve funds to ensure macroeconomic sustainability. This paper aims to study the importance that this reserve fund plays in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013363083
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The impact of oil shocks on the Spanish economy
Gómez-Loscos, Ana; Montañés, Antonio; Gadea, María … - 2010
across the sample. Evidence in favour of a diminishing effect of oil price shocks on the output and inflation is found from … in the last part of the 1990s and, especially, for the CPI inflation in the 2000s. The most outstanding result is that … the oil price movements could explain at least some of the recent inflation, the main difference between these outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575575
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The Role of Funded Pensions in Retirement Income Systems: Issues for the Russian Federation
Yermo, Juan - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2012
This paper reviews the recent development of the funded pension system in the Russian Federation and considers it role in the context of the overall retirement income system. By describing current OECD practices and policy recommendations and comparing them with the current Russian pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276653
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The Czech Pension System and the Perspectives of Its Reform
Slavík, Michal - In: Prague Economic Papers 2006 (2006) 3, pp. 214-230
This essay describes the Czech pension system, provides a brief history of its modern transformation and mentions some of its drawbacks which should be the subject of a future policy debate. Particular attention is devoted to the third pillar and to the importance of a well-functioning capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036557