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Exploring options for a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland
Twahir M. Khalfan; Kisanga, Elineema; Leyaro, Vincent; … - 2020
data set from Tanzania-the Household Budget Surveys-and applies a taxbenefit microsimulation model for Tanzania (TAZMOD) to … established in Tanzania Mainland, and a lack of adequate financing is viewed as one of the main constraints. This paper employs a … explore possible options for designing and financing a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland. The findings of this …
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Private Pensions and Income Security in Old Age: An Uncertain Future -- Conference Report
Hering, Martin; Kpessa, Michael - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007
By all measures the private pension system in Canada is in difficulty. One estimate suggests that at the end of 2005 there were significant funding shortfalls in about three quarters of the traditional defined benefit pension plans that fall under federal jurisdiction in Canada. In order to...
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Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers
Kruse, Herman; Myhre, Andreas - 2022
This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavior among elderly displaced workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian matched employer-employee data containing information on bankruptcy dates and...
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Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers
Kruse, Herman; Myhre, Andreas - 2022
This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavior among elderly displaced workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian matched employer-employee data containing information on bankruptcy dates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480206
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Social Security Reform : A Budget Neutral Approach to Reducing Older Women's Disproportional Risk of Poverty
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2011
Perhaps the single greatest achievement of social policy in the United States over the last three decades has been reducing poverty in old age. The transition from work to retirement is no longer economically perilous for the vast majority of older American workers. For most married couples, the...
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Social Security Reform : Improving Benefit Adequacy and Economic Security for Women
Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2011
This policy brief is designed to raise awareness of the current and future economic circumstances of older women, and the ways in which Social Security reform can help alleviate their unmet needs. It considers the gaps in benefit adequacy and economic security that are not addressed by current...
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Transfers and Labor Market Behavior of the Elderly in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Jung, Juergen; Tran, Chung - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2009
In this paper we argue that the strategic interaction between the labor supply decision of the elderly and private transfers from their children lowers the opportunity cost of leisure of the elderly. This in turn magnifies the crowding-out effect of public pensions on the labor supply of the...
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A Dynamic Analysis of the Effect of Social Security Reform on Spanish Widow Pensioners
Peinado, Patricia; Serrano, Felipe - In: Panoeconomicus 58 (2011) 5, pp. 759-771
This paper shows the dynamic effects of the reform of the Spanish social security pension system on the pensions received by one of the most vulnerable groups of the population, namely, widows. We undertake a duration analysis to account for the effects of reform over time. We study the effects...
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Small but effective: India's targeted unconditional cash transfers
Dutta, Puja; Howes, Stephen; Murgai, Rinku - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public works. Targeted, unconditional cash transfers are little used, and have been little evaluated. An evaluation of cash transfers for the elderly and widows based on national household survey data and surveys...
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Transfers and Labor Market Behavior of the Elderly in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Tran, Chung - Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research … - 2008
In this paper, I analyze the crowding-out effects of public transfers on labor supply of the elderly in the context of developing countries. I argue that the interactions between private transfers received and labor supplied by the elderly affect the opportunity cost of retirement and,...
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