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    Forward thinking and family support: explaining retirement and old age labor supply in Indonesia

    California Center for Population Research, USA, 2007
    In the absence of broad formal retirement support, many older people rely on their own labour income and extended families for support in the form of transfer payments, co-residence, and participation in family businesses.
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    Do workers in Chile choose informal employment? A dynamic analysis of sector choice

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    To asses the coverage of Chile’s social insurance and pensions plan, this paper examines shifts in the country's labour market during a period of economic contraction. Employment in the formal sector requires workers to save for social insurance, while the self-employed can choose whether and how to save and the informal workers are responsible for their own pension.
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    Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato

    The research programme of the PSC addresses the most central questions of population studies relating to demographic transitions and to population distribution, and has linked these to economic, polit
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    Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences (CPOP)

    The Committee on Population (CPOP) was established to conduct scientific assessments of major population-related issues and to provide a forum for the discussion and analysis of important public polic
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    Demographic change and regional competitiveness: the effects of immigration and ageing

    Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2007
    This paper focuses on the impact of population ageing and immigration on regional competitiveness, including innovation, entrepreneurship and productivity. The author presents empirical evidence that population ageing reduces regional competitiveness, while immigration – particularly of entrepreneurs and highly skilled workers to metropolitan areas – enhances competitiveness.
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    The Kosovo pension reform: achievements and lessons

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2007
    This paper describes the reform of the pension system in Kosovo, and discusses policy issues and implementation experience.The pension system in Kosovo has three pillars: Pillar I: an old-age "basic pension" (paid to all Kosovars, 65 years of age and older) and a disability pension, funded from general revenues ratherPillar II: a mandatory, defined-contribution, savings pension prog
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    Multiple origins, uncertain destinies: Hispanics and the American future

    Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, 2006
    Hispanics are one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population and are currently the nation's largest ethnic minority, and they will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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    Immigrants and boomers: forging a new social contract for the future of America

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
    The state of California leads all other states in America with its 27 percent foreign-born share in the population, and it therefore represents the leading edge of demographic changes in America as a whole.
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    Pension systems in Latin America: concepts and measurements of coverage

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2007
    This paper documents the findings of a project designed to measure pension coverage based on information from household surveys in Latin America. It represents an expansion of a previous analysis and describes the level, trends and profiles of pension coverage among active workers and the elderly in the region.
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    The aging of Korea: demographics and retirement policy in the Land of the Morning Calm

    Global Aging Initiative Program, 2007
    With life expectancy rising and birthrates plumbing record lows, Korea is about to undergo a stunning demographic transformation. According to the latest government projections, 38 percent of Korea’s population will be elderly by 2050, putting it in contention with Japan, Italy, and Spain for being the oldest country on earth.

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