October 2024
23Oct

Vejez y políticas públicas en Latinoamérica: una revisión de la literatura

Por Ariany da Silva Villar, Sara Caro Puga & Herminia Gonzálvez Torralbo Buscamos identificar las perspectivas sobre la vejez en la producción académica relativa a las políticas públicas para el envejecimiento en Latinoamérica. Realizamos una revisión sistemática de 82 fuentes bibliográficas publicadas entre 2000 y 2020 y las analizamos a la luz de una perspectiva crítica y feminista, por medio de un análisis cualitativo de contenido. A partir de este, caracterizamos a la vejez desde los principales paradigmas relacionados con...

October 23, 2024
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18Oct

SEC Investigations of Public Pensions

By Kangkang Zhang In recent years, the looming threat of substantial unfunded liabilities and the obligation to meet these financial commitments have become critical issues for numerous state pension plans, prompting concerns about their solvency and management. This study examines the effect on public pension plans of investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Utilizing a stacked cohort difference-in-differences design, I observe that state pensions tend to improve investment performance when subjected to SEC investigation. The observed effect...

October 18, 2024
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18Oct

Parametric Pension Reform Options in Korea

By Daniel Baksa, Boele Bonthuis, Si Guo & Zsuzsa Munkacsi Population aging in Korea will pose substantial challenges to the financial sustainability of its public pension system. Under current policies and plausible assumptions, public pension spending can increase by as much as 4 percent of GDP during 2020-70, while contribution revenue will largely stay constant. This expected rise in public pension spending mainly reflects the increase in the old-age dependency ratio (and therefore the number of pension recipients), the deceleration...

October 18, 2024
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18Oct

The Impact of Lump-Sum Retirement Withdrawals on Labor Supply: Evidence from Peru

By Carla Moreno & Sita Slavov  We examine the labor supply impact of a 2016 policy that allows retirementeligible individuals covered by Peru’s private pension system to receive retirement benefits as a lump sum rather than as an annuity. We present a theoretical model predicting that, for liquidity constrained workers, the lump sum option makes formal employment (requiring pension participation) more attractive relative to informal employment (not requiring pension participation); it also encourages early retirement. Using household panel data, we...

October 18, 2024
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16Oct

Who Owns the City? Pension Fund Capitalism and the Parkdale Rent Strike

By Jamie Shilton Canadian public pension funds play an increasingly significant role as institutional investors, including in the domestic residential property market. Some scholars have suggested that pension fund investments of this kind result in a form of public ownership, sometimes characterized as “pension fund socialism.” However, the actual character of pension fund investment in Canada is much more akin to a financialized pension fund capitalism, with public pension funds adopting investment strategies consistent with private financial market actors. In...

October 16, 2024
Articles, Investment,
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16Oct

Informe mensual del comportamiento de la economía. Marzo 2024

Por Comisión Nacional de los Salarios Mínimos Para 2024 el Consejo de Representantes fijó los salarios mínimos en 374.89 pesos diarios en la Zona Libre de la Frontera Norte (ZLFN) y 248.93 pesos diarios en el resto del país. En términos reales, ambas zonas salariales presentaron en febrero una recuperación del poder adquisitivo de 14.9% anual. La inflación muestra una disminución paulatina, aunque continúa por arriba del nivel objetivo del Banco de México. En febrero, el Índice Nacional de Precios...

October 16, 2024
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16Oct

¿Es un ranking de sistemas de pensiones una herramienta útil para orientar la política previsional?

Por Guillermo Montt y Fabio Bertranou Los índices y rankings internacionales que comparan los sistemas de pensiones y jubilaciones reciben particular atención en países donde se están discutiendo o avanzando reformas a sus sistemas. En América Latina, por ejemplo, en Chile, Colombia, México y Uruguay se están discutiendo o avanzando en reformas a sus sistemas previsionales y estos rankings son mencionadas en el debate público. Estas ambiciosas iniciativas han buscado guiar y promover el debate acerca de buenas prácticas en sus...

October 16, 2024
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16Oct

Gentrificación y financiarización del desarrollo urbano en la ciudad de México

Por Victor Delgadillo La financiarización de los mercados inmobiliarios es promovida y garantiza-da por las políticas públicas de muchos gobiernos. Cada vez más países y ciudades han introducido mecanismos para la titulización de diversos ámbitos y segmentos del  mercado  inmobiliario,  así  como  instrumentos  institucionales  que  conectan  el  sector inmobiliario con el financiero, y permiten la inversión inmobiliaria en distintos territorios y escalas (Aalbers 2016; Shimbo y Rufino 2019). En México, en 2005, se emitió una nueva Ley del Mercado de...

October 16, 2024
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11Oct

Social pensions in the Americas: Recent developments

By International Social Security Association Ensuring adequate social security coverage for an ageing population is an important priority for governments and the global membership of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). Social pensions, also known as zero pillar or non-contributory pensions, complement contributory social insurance systems by providing a guaranteed source of income for people not adequately protected by other forms of social security. In doing so, they expand overall social protection and can be a powerful tool for combating...

October 11, 2024
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11Oct

Statistics on the informal economy

By International Labour Organization In many countries, the informal economy represents a significant part of the labour market and plays a major role in production, employment creation and income generation. However, informality puts workers at a higher risk of vulnerability and precariousness. It has a strong adverse impact on the adequacy of earnings, occupational safety and health and working conditions in general. Informality remains a key concern of the Decent Work Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the informality rate is part of...

October 11, 2024
Books, Books, Labor Market, Reports
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