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The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on...
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the conception of economic inclusion, by means of an exploration of linguistic inclusion and the notion of ‘disability …
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force participation; (iii) there is strong evidence that health and disability status is a significant determinant of …
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Government policies on disability - and criticism of them - rest in part on an understanding of the circumstances of …-disabled'. While conceptual debates about the nature of disability and associated measurement problems have received some attention …, the dynamic aspect of disability has been largely overlooked. This paper uses two approaches to longitudinal data from the …
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possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs of living associated with disability, and to quantify them using the 'standard of living' approach. The underlying … theory is that a household's standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …
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Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are less well off. But inequalities in people's economic positions are also...
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We evaluate the influence that employment promotion measures and labour market intermediation services addressed to disabled individuals have on the latter’s quality of the job match through the use of matching analysis techniques. Our focus is placed on two aspects of quality: the type of...
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retirement, and also of reaching retirement age in good health and without disability, especially in low-qualified occupations …
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This paper focuses on Senegal’s second poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP–II). It summarizes the results of the participatory PRSP review process prior to final validation and adoption by the government. As an economic and social policy document for growth and poverty reduction...
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This Selected Issues paper focuses on the fiscal challenge for Belgium in coping with population aging, including the sustainability of prevailing fiscal federalism arrangements across all levels of governments. The analysis demonstrates that the current strategy of upfront consolidation is...
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