March 2024
06Mar

La vía hacia el trabajo decente para las trabajadoras y los trabajadores domésticos

Por Organización Internacional del Trabajo  Este informe es un resumen conciso de la investigación en profundidad realizada en 2021. Presenta las principales conclusiones, buenas prácticas por países y asesoramiento metodológico detallado. En el Capítulo 5, se presenta una novedosa estrategia en 5 pasos que servirá de guía a los responsables políticos, los empleadores y las organizaciones, proporcionando soluciones prácticas para empoderar y mejorar la vida de las trabajadoras y los trabajadores domésticos en todo el mundo. En cada paso, también...

March 6, 2024
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06Mar

Los efectos presupuestarios de la reforma de pensiones: un balance provisional

Por Ángel de la Fuente  En esta nota se resumen las principales medidas incluidas en el reciente acuerdo para cerrar la reforma del sistema público de pensiones y se cuantifican sus efectos sobre los ingresos y gastos del sistema. Incorporando también estimaciones sobre el impacto presupuestario de otros aspectos de la reforma, parece claro que el déficit básico del sistema (antes de transferencias del Estado), que ya es significativo en la actualidad, aumentará rápidamente durante las próximas décadas, lo que...

March 6, 2024
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06Mar

Pensiones y jubilaciones de gobiernos estatales en México y su impacto en las finanzas públicas 2020-2021

Por José Antonio Villalobos López El objetivo principal de este trabajo es conocer el monto de los pasivos laborales por pensiones y jubilaciones que generan los servidores públicos de las entidades federativas, buscando contestar dos preguntas: ¿cuál es el monto de los pasivos laborales que adeudan hasta el año 2021 los gobiernos locales?; y ¿qué porcentaje del PIB (estatal y nacional) representan esos montos? Este ensayo se estableció bajo el método deductivo, en el paradigma hermenéutico, con enfoque cuantitativo. Hasta...

March 6, 2024
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06Mar

Estudio sobre tasas de reemplazo en el sistema de pensiones chileno y sus proyecciones bajo distintos escenarios

Por Superintendecia de pensiones En este estudio se analizan los dos indicadores en forma conjunta permite realizar una evaluación más integral del sistema de pensiones al menos en dos de sus objetivos: suavizar consumo al pasar de vida activa a vida pasiva y de aliviar pobreza en la segunda etapa. En efecto, el informe presenta los indicadores tanto para el pilar contributivo de capitalización individual como considerando la Pensión Garantizada Universal (PGU) que paga el Estado a todas las personas...

March 6, 2024
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01Mar

Final report: Engaging with Pensions at timely moments

By Department for Work & Pensions The research achieves this by exploring people’s attitudes and behaviour with regards to pensions, saving, and retirement planning; identifying whether specific life events might be useful prompts to help people engage with their pensions; and looking at how the government and the pensions industry could best support people at these times. Get the report here

March 1, 2024
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01Mar

Pension Funding Index February 2024

By Zorast Wadia The funded status of the 100 largest U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plans increased by $12 billion during January as measured by the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI). The funding surplus improved to $40 billion as a result of liability decreases that outweighed asset losses during the month. Pension liabilities fell due to an increase in the benchmark corporate bond interest rates used to value those liabilities. As of January 31, the plans’ funded ratio climbed...

March 1, 2024
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01Mar

Fiscal Stimulus or Debt Relief: The Effect of Federal Pandemic Aid on State and Local Pensions

By Grace Brang, Sewin Chan & Travis St. Clair Between 2020-2021, the U.S. federal government passed four major pieces of legislation that included nearly $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments. One concern with distributing federal stimulus in the form of intergovernmental transfers is that subnational governments may use the aid to pay down unfunded pension liabilities or other debt rather than preserve employment. We examine the effect of fiscal stimulus passed in response to Covid-19 on public...

March 1, 2024
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01Mar

Lessons from the Pan-European Personal Pension product (PEPP)

By Hans van Meerten Europe has come up with legislation for a new individual pension product: the PEPP. This introduces an individual retirement account that can be rolled out in the entire European Union (EU). And can be offered to citizens worldwide. Europe – like most continents - is ageing at a rapid pace. In 2060, there will be two people at a working age for every pensioner, in comparison with four people at a working age at the present time....

March 1, 2024
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01Mar

Financial Fragility, Financial Resilience, and Pension Distributions

By Robert L. Clark & Olivia S. Mitchell We evaluate Americans’ financial robustness during the Covid-19 pandemic, using measures of financial resilience and financial fragility derived from US surveys of persons age 45-75 from 2020 to 2022. We analyze which factors were associated with resilience and fragility, discuss how these measures changed during the pandemic, and assess whether pre-pandemic resilience led to better outcomes during the period. Results show that stronger resilience was protective in terms of financial fragility, and financial literacy...

March 1, 2024
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February 2024
22Feb

Closing the Gap: The Role of Public Pensions in Reducing Retirement Inequality

By Nari Rhee This study analyzes the impact of defined benefit pensions, especially public pensions, on retirement income security and wealth distribution by race, gender, and educational attainment in the U.S. It serves as a companion report to Closing the Gap fact sheets, which are designed to inform the public about the social equity impact of pensions in each state and the District of Columbia. Get the report here

February 22, 2024
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