September 2022
30Sep

Behavioral Influences on Retirement Planning: Non-Financial Reasoning Affecting Retirement Outcomes

By Janet Aschkenasy The supposed rational logic of the market is no longer understood to exclusively motivate economic decision making. Behavioral economics is now a vital part of university curriculums. Both lay persons and professional retirement investors at times manage money on irrational behavioral factors. Janet Aschkenasy, a veteran business writer, discusses the insights of leading behavioral economics scholars and draws upon current research to describe "decision making" practices among individuals and retirement managers. Often higher investment returns are forfeited to a behavioral...

September 30, 2022
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December 2021
03Dec

The Gender Gap in Pensions in the EU

By Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini & Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale Pensions are an important determinant of their beneficiaries’ economic independence. When examining independence for people of working age, we are led naturally to think about the gender pay gap. Focusing on gaps in pensions would be the natural follow-up (or sequel) to an interest in gender pay gaps. Those gaps would reflect the cumulated disadvantages of a career spent in a gender-biased labour market. This is even more true for older...

December 3, 2021
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July 2021
07Jul

Más allá de las Pensiones Contributivas Catorce experiencias en América Latina

Por Rafael Rofman, Ignacio Apella, Evelyn Vezza Expandiendo la protección económica a los adultos mayores en América Latina1 Desde inicios del siglo XXI, los sistemas de protección económica para los adultos mayores en América Latina fueron objeto de una serie de reformas profundas. A diferencia de la mayoría de las revisiones que se habían implementado a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, estas reformas no apuntaron a mejorar la sustentabilidad fiscal, incorporar nuevos actores en la gestión, modificar...

July 7, 2021
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January 2021

13Jan

Sistemas de protección social en América Latina y el Caribe: México

Por NU. CEPAL. División de Desarrollo Social Este informe forma parte de una serie de estudios de caso nacionales cuyo propósito es difundir el conocimiento sobre la situación actual de los sistemas de protección social en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, así como discutir los principales desafíos en este ámbito en términos de la realización de los derechos económicos y sociales de la población y el logro de los objetivos de desarrollo claves, tales como la...

January 13, 2021
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April 2020
11Apr

Enlisting Employees In Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence From Mexico

By Todd Kumler, Eric Verhoogen, Judith A. Frías A growing body of research suggests that difficulties in collecting taxes are an important constraint on economic performance in developing countries. Evidence from rich countries points to third- party reporting — in particular, employer reports of employees' wages — as a potential remedy. To what extent does the accuracy of third-party reporting carry over to developing countries, with their weaker enforcement regimes? In this paper, we compare two sources of wage information...

April 11, 2020
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February 2020

28Feb

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

By Angus Deaton The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the...

February 28, 2020
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January 2020

03Jan

Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives

By Marek Szczepanski, John A. Turner Countries around the world are reforming their social security and pension systems. International studies often focus on social security reforms in Europe and North America, and may include Latin America. Reforms, however, are also occurring in Asia and Africa, and include reforms of voluntary and employer-provided pensions as well as social security programs. This book discusses both social security and employer-provided pension reforms, as well as reforms in most regions of the world....

January 3, 2020
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November 2019

13Nov

Las decisiones de los inversionistas a través del lente de la economía del comportamiento

Por David S. Murphy La teoría económica tradicional postula que las personas son racionales. Esto implica que las personas toman decisiones para maximizar sus funciones de utilidad, y que para hacer esto han evaluado de forma completa y correcta sus preferencias y limitaciones. La economía del comportamiento reconoce que esto no es siempre verdad; que a veces no existe suficiente información. En este artículo, examino algunos de los efectos de la economía del comportamiento (que vienen en gran parte...

November 13, 2019
Artículos, Inversión,
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October 2019

02Oct

Gobierno Corporativo En Latinoamerica y Espana

por Briano Turrent Guadalupe Del Carmen, Rodriguez a Lazaro, Azuara P Virginia El gobierno corporativo y la transparencia corporativa han cobrado gran relevancia en los ultimos anos. La crisis economica actual y los escandalos y fraudes financieros acontecidos alrededor del mundo, han llevado a las empresas a adoptar buenas practicas de gobernanza empresarial y a incrementar la divulgacion de informacion corporativa. A pesar de que existe una vasta literatura sobre el tema, la mayor parte de esta, se ha...

October 2, 2019
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September 2019

13Sep

The Price of Inequality

Senior Fellow Joseph E Stiglitz America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true, dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy, our...

September 13, 2019
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