Does social pension buy improved mental health and mortality outcomes for senior citizens? Evidence from South Africa's 2008 pension reform [PDF]
In South Africa, men were traditionally eligible to receive government pensions at 65 years. However, that eligibility criterion was changed in 2008 to allow men to receive a pension payout at 60 years.
Cyprian M. Mostert +4 more
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Does the reform of the phased reduction of the pension insurance contribution rate benefit the labor income share of enterprises? [PDF]
IntroductionThis paper develops a theoretical model to clarify the mechanisms by which pension insurance contribution rate affects the labor income share of enterprises and conducts empirical validation.MethodsUtilizing a difference-in-differences ...
Chengqiang Dou, Ying Liu
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Pension reforms, economic security, and mental health: The need for a human rights-based approach [PDF]
Pension systems play a crucial role in providing economic security and supporting well-being in later life. However, as governments implement reforms to ensure financial sustainability—such as raising the retirement age, reducing benefits, and shifting ...
Sarah Steele +3 more
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You Win Some, You Lose Some: Pension Reform in Bachelet’s First and Second Administrations
This article analyses and compares President Bachelet’s successful efforts to reform the Chilean pension system in 2008 and her failure to achieve the same objective in 2017. The article addresses the impact of electoral promises, policy legacies, policy
Silvia Borzutzky
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The need for pension reform in Russia [PDF]
The relevance of the paper is caused by the fact that the current pension system did not satisfy either citizens, since their pensions were extremely miserable, neither employers due to the high level of contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian ...
Semenova Galina
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This article analyzes China's pension arrangement and notes that China has recently established a universal non-contributory pension plan covering urban non-employed workers and all rural residents, combined with the pension plan covering urban employees already in place.
Liu, T (author), Sun, L. (author)
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Problems of pension provision in Russia
The article identifies trends in the formation, development, and reform of the pension system of Russia over 30 years. The advantages and disadvantages of the existing pension system are considered, a brief critical analysis of the reform of the pension ...
R. I. Gorelov
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Is there an alternative to the pay-as-you-go pension system in Serbia? [PDF]
International pension reform experiences indicate that, amid demographic aging, each country needs to identify the reform policies most suited to its own economic and social environment.
Altiparmakov Nikola
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Pensions and pension reform in Nigeria [PDF]
Welfare systems have been undergoing reform in most developing countries, and this is a major component of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank structural reform programme for developing economies. Unexpected change will occur in the relationship between people and those administering this welfare security scheme, in terms of the gains provided ...
Kareem O Idowu, Kareem F Olanike
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Pension Reforms in Countries with Developed and Transitional Economies [PDF]
The subject matter of the research is as follows: pension reforms conducted by some states define the transformation of pension systems. The choice of countries is stipulated by the fact that each of them has different types of pension systems and ...
Sergey Anatolyevich Belozyorov +1 more
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