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    National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra (NATSEM)

    NATSEM is a research centre associated with the University of Canberra that undertakes research and analysis specialising in the use of microdata and microsimulation modelling to address ongoing and e
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    Old, single and poor: using microsimulation and microdata to analyse poverty and the impact of policy change among older Australians

    National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008
    In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about the adequacy of the old age pension to provide an acceptable standard of living. Projected increases in the number of age pension recipients in the future, as well as concerns about the current wellbeing of age pensioners, particularly in light of increasing costs of living, has prompted debate about the current level of payments.
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    A first look at older Americans and the mortgage crisis

    AARP Public Policy Institute, 2008
    Homeowners age 50 and over have been significantly affected by the mortgage crisis, according to this US analysis of data on the mortgage crisis by age. More than 684,000 homeowners age 50 and over were delinquent (30-180 days late making payments), were in foreclosure, or lost their homes during the six months ending December 2007.
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    The housing bubble and retirement security

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2008
    House prices rose 60 percent between 2000 and 2007 before the housing bubble burst in the United States. Has the housing boom made people better or worse prepared for retirement?This brief explores how the rise in house prices affected individual households. It:
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    Distributional analysis of pension and social security reforms: alternative approaches and a report on an expert panel meeting

    Urban Institute, USA, 2008
    As the US Social Security system faces demographic challenges, distributional analysis will play an important role in designing policies which ensure its fiscal solvency. Most notably, policy makers will be concerned about the distribution of the gains and losses of potential policy reforms.
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    New frontiers of research on retirement

    2008
    Corporate and community leaders and researchers will be giving increasing attention to the question of what adjustments will be needed as a consequence of the wave of retirements in the years ahead. This book has been designed to contribute to the basic information that Canadian leaders and researchers will need when they begin to devote much more time and resources to these adjustments.
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    Pension fund performance

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    This study, by the OECD in collaboration with the World Bank and some private sector institutions, aims to compare investment performance of privately managed pension funds across several OECD, Latin American and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
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    Rethinking pension reforms in Chile: implications for developing Asia

    Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2008
    The reform of the Chilean Pension System in 1981 has probably been one of the most widely discussed reform programs in non-OECD countries, and the most widely emulated in Latin America.
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    Welfare and generational equity in sustainable unfunded pension systems

    Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
    In response to the inefficiencies of Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) pension programmes, some countries such as Sweden have implemented Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) plans. Under NDC, individuals contribute to their own account, but the rate of return earned by these accounts is linked to the growth rate of total wages. This
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    Macroeconomic effects of pension reform in Russia

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2008
    Russia’s ageing problem is further aggravated by the fact that its population is rapidly shrinking, at an expected rate of about 0.5 percent per year until 2050. This implies a decline in contributions to the pension system, while payouts will increase. The existing pension system is ill-prepared for this challenge.

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