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The Non-financial (Notional) Defined Contribution (NDC) PAYGO pension scheme is a recent innovation and its generic dimensions have not previously been explored in a coherent context. This paper does this. It derives and analyzes the demographic, economic and distributional properties of NDC....
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transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social … and pensions – are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but …
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Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across population groups with the elderly, people with...
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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 …
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-contributory) pensions in Europe. We use data from the household survey EU-SILC and focus on 17 countries. We simulate - in a static … framework - the introduction of two social pension schemes: universal and means tested social pensions. We see that the old … have few other income sources than pensions. On the opposite, it costs less. In fact, the means test reduces substantially …
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small and dominated by non-redistributive schemes such as contributory pensions. Education coverage has increased steadily … programmes non-redistributifs, en particulier les pensions contributives. Les taux de scolarisation ont augmenté mais la qualité …
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Non take-up of means-tested benefits among pensioners is of longstanding concern. It will assume increased importance from 2003 with the introduction of the new means-tested Pension Credit, which will subsume Income Support and to which about half of all pensioners are expected to be entitled....
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Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women's families histories and their personal incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany, By comparing three countries with very different welfare regimes, we seek to gain a...
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weakest in the UK, where there is evidence of a pensions' poverty trap and where only predominantly full-time employment is …
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low-skilled women. Recent pensions reforms should eventually produce more equitable outcomes as between men and women …
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