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The Effect of a Transfer Program for the Elderly in Mexico City on Co-Residing Children's School Enrollment

Autor: Gutierrez, Emilio; Juarez, Laura; Rubli, Adrian
Año: 2017
Resumen: A regression discontinuity analysis is used to test whether a sharp increase in the government transfers received by households, induced by a pension program for individuals age 70 and older in Mexico City, affects co-residing children's school enrollment. Results show that while household composition and other characteristics do not change significantly at the cutoff age for program eligibility, school enrollment increases significantly. This suggests that households may be credit constrained, as the sharp increase in government transfers is known and anticipated by individuals below the cutoff age.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Artículo Académico
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Fiscal Challenges of Population Aging in Brazil

Autor: Cuevas, Alfredo; Karpowicz, Izabela; Mulas-Granados, Carlos; Soto, Mauricio
Año: 2017
Resumen: In recent decades, population has been aging fast in Brazil while old age pensions and healthrelated spending have increased. As the population ages, the spending trend threaten to reach unsustainable levels absent reforms. Increasing the retirement age is key, but by itself will not provide sufficient savings to close the pension system financing gap, and reforms reducing replacement rates are necessary. In the area of health, there is scope for improving expenditure efficiency by strengthening outpatient care and regional networks, and developing clinical guidelines for cost-effective treatments and drugs. Reforms are urgent, so that they can be gradual.

Fuente: Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI)
Clasificación: Demografía
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Expanding Social Insurance Coverage to Informal Workers

Autor: Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth; Winkler, Hernan; Mote, Hilma
Año: 2017
Resumen: The high incidence of informality in developing countries implies that many workers are not covered against important risks, such as unemployment, illness and old-age poverty. Given that expanding the Bismarckian system to include informal workers presents many challenges, several countries implemented non-contributory social insurance programs to expand coverage. However, these contributed to labor market segmentation and are unlikely to be financially sustainable. This note reviews the economic literature dealing with the expansion of social insurance programs and summarizes the main policy insights. It draws on international evidence on social insurance system design and innovations, and the resulting impact on coverage. It also provides general design principles that can apply to unemployment benefits, health insurance, and pensions.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguro
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Assessing Benefit Portability for International Migrant Workers: A Review of the Belgium-Morocco Bilateral Social Security Agreement

Autor: Wels, Jacques; Holzmann, Robert; Dale, Pamela
Año: 2016
Resumen: The portability of social benefits is gaining importance given the increasing share of individuals working at least part of their life outside their home country. Bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) are considered a crucial approach to establishing portability, but the functionality and effectiveness of these agreements have not yet been investigated; thus, important guidance for policy makers in migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries is missing. To shed light on how BSSAs work in practice, this document is part of a series providing information and lessons from studies of portability in four diverse but comparable migration corridors: Austria-Turkey, Germany-Turkey, Belgium-Morocco, and France-Morocco. A summary policy paper draws broader conclusions and offers overarching policy recommendations. This report looks specifically into the working of the Belgium-Morocco corridor. Findings suggest that the BSSA is broadly working well, with no main substantive issues in the area of pension portability, except for the non-portability of the noncontributory top-up pension and issues with widows’ pensions in case of divorce and repudiation, and in health care, the pending introduction of portable health care for retirees with single pensions from the other country. Process issues around information provision in Morocco and automation of information exchange are recognized.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Ahorro Previsional
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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El impacto socioeconómico de la seguridad social

Autor: Damon, Julien; Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social (AISS)
Año: 2016
Resumen: In 2011, the International Social Security Association (ISSA) launched its project on social security in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The project has prompted a number of important activities and produced a number of publications. These have permitted to discuss and document the innovative approaches taken by the five BRICS countries to address the challenges facing their respective social security systems. Social security is a great undertaking, which impacts positively on the future of a nation and benefits all generations. The recent experiences of the BRICS and other countries demonstrate that universal national floors of social protection are not only achievable but also affordable, irrespective of a country’s level of development. Thereafter, countries should strive to progressively improve the quality of social security coverage. As the recent laureate of the triennial ISSA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Security, the Government of China has achieved spectacular progress towards universal health and pension coverage in a relatively short period. This success has been made possible by a combination of strong political commitment and significant administrative innovations. This ISSA report has been prepared in collaboration with the ISSA member organizations in the BRICS countries on the occasion of the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting in Chongqing, China, 26–27 July 2017. Its main objective is to define the current and future sustainability challenges for social security programmes from the point of view of those who are directly involved in the management of social security programmes in the BRICS countries and to provide input regarding future activities under the BRICS Social Security Cooperation Framework. We salute BRICS social security administrations’ commitment to sustaining and further extending social security protection in line with the objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. We are certain that the Ministerial Meeting will be a complete success with productive deliberations and strong conclusions, and look forward to further fruitful outcomes under the BRICS Social Security Cooperation Framework.

Fuente: Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social (AISS)
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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