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    Preparing for policy changes: social security expectations and pension scheme participation

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    This paper discusses the relationship between public and private savings by analysing private pension scheme participation in the presence of such policy uncertainty. It assesses the influence of subjective policy change expectations on voluntary pension scheme participation in the Netherlands.
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    Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico: revisiting the evidence

    LSE Research Online, 2008
    This article explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries.
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    Alternative social security systems and growth

    CESifo, 2008
    This paper aims to provide a theoretical analysis of the conjecture that the introduction of pay as you go [PAYG] social security has led to a substitution of human for physical capital. This is done in a general equilibrium framework to demonstrate that the effect of a social security system on human capital accumulation is essential for evaluating its fiscal sustainability.
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    Demographic change and its influence on development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2008
    The report analyses the various stages of demographic transition by country in Latin American and Caribbean countries.  It looks at their population growth or decline, mortality, fertility, international migration and growth potential of the age structure. It also studies some consequences of demographic trends on the age structure and population size.
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    Micro-pensions in India: critical issues, challenges and strategies for future

    WorldGranny, 2007
    This paper discusses micro-pensions in India with a particular focus on the critical issues, and the current challenges and strategies. It also looks at the role that Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs) play in micro-pensions.
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    Generations of struggle

    American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008
    Using data collected from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP), this paper analyses the age distribution of bankruptcy filers over the past 16 years in America. It aims to describe changes in the age of demographics of those filing for consumer bankruptcy.
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    Europe's coming demographic challenge: unlocking the value of health

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
    This paper looks at the effects of demographic issues on Europe’s transatlantic competition with the United States. It primarily focuses on economic competitiveness as an indicator, and demography in relation to labour markets, health care and education.
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    Policies to improve the resiliency of long-term social security financing

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
    This paper examines policies to index social security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors that impact system finances. It proposes a class of reforms designed to auto-correct for changes in the major demographic factors affecting social security financing.
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    Towards an employment-centred development strategy for poverty reduction in The Gambia: macroeconomic and labour market aspects

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Over the past decade The Gambia has experienced higher rates of growth than at any other time in its post-independence history. But faster growth has not translated into broad-based development and poverty reduction.
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    Large declines in defined benefit plans are not inevitable: the experience of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

    Pensions Institute, 2008
    Looking at the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, this report evaluates the causes of decline in defined pension benefit plans and the move toward defined contribution pension plans.

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