Revealed preference and self-insurance - Can we learn from the self-employed in Chile? [PDF]
Financial sector development is a critical area of effective social protection policy. A well-regulated financial sector can complement government efforts to keep households from falling into poverty - by supplying the instruments needed to pool risks ...
Barr, Abigail, Packard, Truman
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Social Security and Retirement during Transition: Microeconometric Evidence from Slovenia. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 57, 2 September 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 This paper analyses old-age retirement decisions of Slovenian men and women eligible to retire in the period 1997-2003. In addition to established market economies, relatively high hazard rates of retirement are found, which decline with age.
Jehoel-Gijsbers, Gerda., Vrooman, Cok.
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Options for pension reform in Tunisia [PDF]
Tunisia's pension system provides old age, survivorship, and disability benefits to retired and disabled workers and their dependents. It is a partially funded system based on solidarity between generations.
Vittas, Dimitri
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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas.
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The role of pension funds as institutional investors in emerging markets [PDF]
, 2005 In recent years, a growing number of Emerging Market Economies, as well as most advanced countries, have witnessed growth of pension funds as institutional investors.
Davis, EP
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A Blue Print For Germany’s Pension Reform [PDF]
Germany relies almost exclusively on a public pay-as-you-go pension system for old-age in-come provision. This mandatory “retirement insurance” has become under severe pressure, mainly from population aging and from incentive effects that have reduced ...
Axel Börsch-Supan
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Financing Retirement in the European Union [PDF]
This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting their systems of old-age income support.
Lans Bovenberg
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Pension institutions and annuities in Denmark [PDF]
This paper considers the overall structure of the Danish pension system, reviews the relative role of different types of pension institutions, and discusses their asset allocation strategies and investment performance.
Andersen, Carsten, Skjodt, Peter
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Annuities in Switzerland [PDF]
Switzerland's pension system has attracted considerable attention, mainly due to its reliance on a three-pillar structure. A relatively small pay-as-you-go system (first pillar) is complemented by a mandatory, employer-based, fully funded occupational ...
Butler, Monika, Ruesch, Martin
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Endogenesis and empowerment: logic, practical mechanism and sustainable path of rural minor pension institutions -based on the qualitative study of four villages in the Midwest of China. [PDF]
Front Public HealthFan P, Fa R, Wang C.
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