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Social Potection for the Harder Road Ahead: Containing the Social Costs of Lower Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Autor: Banco Mundial
Año: 2015
Resumen: During a decade of rapid growth, more jobs and higher wages dramatically reduced poverty and drove down historically high levels of inequality. Governments in the region complemented the gains from growth with investments in social protection policies, further reducing poverty and inequality. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are rightfully proud of these achievements. As the region prepares for a long period of slower growth and tighter budgets, the value of their investment in building social protection systems will grow. Social protection can help protect social gains as labor earnings and employment fall. The evidence accumulated from the region’s experience of which social protection interventions work and which do not, will be an essential resource to guide difficult policy decisions. Countries will move ahead with the long run development of their diverse social protection systems as they are able. But in the shorter run three areas of policy action will rise in priority: (i) protecting poor and vulnerable people through the lean years; (ii) finding fiscal savings in reforms to large and regressive items of social policy; and (iii) fielding labor market initiatives to support workers during a long, slack period and prepare them for economic recovery.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Mercado Laboral
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Making National Social Protection Floors Work for Women

Autor: Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) Mujeres
Año: 2015
Resumen: This brief synthesizes research findings, analysis and policy recommendations on making social protection floors work for women. The idea of a social protection floor (SPF) is now firmly established on the global development agenda. Defined as a set of minimum guarantees, including basic income security for children, working-age adults, older people and people with disabilities, as well as essential health care for all, SPFs hold promise for women, who are over-represented among those excluded from existing social protection schemes. To date, however, the integration of gender concerns in social protection has been uneven and ambiguous, with women’s specific risks and constraints not addressed. Drawing on cross-country evidence and experiences, this brief highlights promising ways to make SPFs work for women. Much can be done in terms of integrating gender into the design and implementation of programmes that promote income security across the life cycle, including cash transfers, public works programmes, and pensions. To provide long-term solutions, however, these efforts must be part of a broader package, including policies that enable women to access decent work—which remains the main source of income for most working-age adults and their families.

Fuente: Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU)
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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Falling Through The Net?

Autor: Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONE) Mujeres; Jolly, Margaret; Lee, Helen; Lepani, Katherine; Naupa, Anna; Rooney, Michelle
Año: 2015
Resumen: This paper analyzes the gender dimensions of social protection in three countries in the Pacific region – Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu – and explores how best to approach social protection so as to promote gender equality rather than risk reinscribing prevailing gender inequalities. It was produced for UN Women’s flagship report Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016 to be released as part of the UN Women discussion paper series.

Fuente: Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU)
Clasificación: Ahorro Previsional
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Adequate contribution rates for sustainable pension funding: Lessons from the german debate and actual practice

Autor: Sailer, Markus
Año: 2015
Resumen: Pension funding ought to follow a comprehensive concept of sustainability. That means to strike a balance between broad and affordable coverage, adequate benefits and retaining sufficient financial reserves. In the case of Germany this means to face the challenge of an ageing population and therefore curb the trend increase in contribution rates while maintaining adequate replacement rates and raise the retirement age to account for longevity increases. The German statutory pension insurance is funded according to the pay-as-you-go method. Revenues are generated through mandatory and voluntary contributions to cover earned entitlements and through transfers from the federal budget to cover the redistributive part of the social insurance pension scheme. Based on demographic and economic projections the rate of contribution is set on an annual base in a way that ensures the liquidity of the pension insurance throughout the entire year. At the end of the year the liquidity reserve should amount between 20 and 150 percent of the expenditures covered by contributions. Otherwise the rate of contribution is adjusted accordingly. The determination of the rate of contribution is carried out in a process that involves continuous and structured monitoring of demographic, economic and financial developments affecting the liquidity of the pension insurance over the entire year. This monitoring includes stakeholders and independent parties as well. It is this plurality of views having a share in the process that safeguards its quality.

Fuente: Fundación Friedrich-Ebert (FES)
Clasificación: Fondos de Inversión
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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Can a Small Social Pension Promote Labor Force Participation?: Evidence from the Colombia Mayor Program

Autor: Pfutze, Tobias; Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Pfutze, Tobias
Año: 2015
Resumen: One of the primary motivations behind the establishment of noncontributory pension programs is to allow beneficiaries to retire from the labor force. Yet, as with other unconditional cash transfer schemes, their aggregate effects may be more complex. Using panel data and instrumental variable techniques, this paper shows that the effect of one such program, Colombia Mayor, has been to raise the labor force participation of relatively younger male beneficiaries. This increase occurred precisely in the occupations with characteristics that are likely to require some up-front investment. The paper concludes that the transfer effectively loosened the liquidity constraints to remaining in these occupations. However, no such effect is found among women or older beneficiaries.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Mercado Laboral
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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