July 2024
25Jul

US. A Philly Small Business Network May Have an Answer to America’s Retirement Crisis

Americans are woefully underprepared for retirement. So it's no surprise that employer-sponsored retirement programs are a high priority for all workers. Fifty-five-year olds in the U.S. currently have median retirement savings of less than $50,000, and two-thirds fear they will outlive their savings, a Prudential report recently revealed. However, only around one-third of small employers offer retirement savings plans, according to Fidelity Investment's 2023 Small Business Retirement Index, which cited time and cost as the biggest barriers small-business owners face in offering retirement benefits. First, employers must pay...

July 25, 2024
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25Jul

Japan to abolish gender-specific survivor’s pension benefits, introduce fixed-term payments

The Japanese welfare ministry is set to revise the survivor's welfare pension for men and women in their 20s to 50s without children, changing it to a five-year fixed-term benefit from the current gender-specific rule where the widow receives the benefit indefinitely if she is 30 or older, while the widower cannot receive payments unless he is 55 or older. The planned adjustment will be made over several decades to ensure that current recipients won't face a disadvantage. The ministry...

July 25, 2024
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24Jul

Pensionistas con esperanza de vida reducida e incentivos fiscales del IRPF: Cobertura del riesgo de longevidad

Por Laura González-Vila Puchades & Jorge De Andrés Sánchez  El sector asegurador español solo ofrece rentas de supervivencia obtenidas con tablas de mortalidad de la población general. Así, los incentivos fiscales del IRPF para la contratación de rentas complementarias a la pensión pública de jubilación suponen un agravio comparativo para personas con esperanza de vida reducida, pues solo pueden beneficiarse de ellos a precios injustos. En España, como en otros muchos países, no se comercializan las denominadas enhanced annuities (rentas...

July 24, 2024
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24Jul

Breaking the Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low-Paying Work

By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development This report adds two perspectives on informality. First, it disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to their children in the absence of adequate education, skills and social protection policy. Second, the report underscores the double burden of informality and low-paying work that a large share of...

July 24, 2024
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24Jul

Fortalecimiento del Ecosistema de Inversión Sostenible en México

Por Pacto Global México La iniciativa de los Grupos de Trabajo Agenda 2030 son el resultado de un convenio de colaboración entre el Pacto Mundial México y el Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE). Dichos grupos fueron creados con el fin de compartir experiencias y avanzar más rápidamente hacia lograr los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible; como dice el lema del Pacto Global: “uniendo empresas por un mundo mejor”. Dentro de estos grupos de trabajo se encuentra el Grupo de Inversión Sostenible, cuyo objetivo...

July 24, 2024
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19Jul

World Population Prospects 2024

By United Nations  The 2024 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-eighth edition of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present for 237 countries or areas, underpinned by analyses of historical demographic trends. This latest assessment considers the results of 1,910 national population censuses conducted between 1950 and 2023, as well as...

July 19, 2024
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19Jul

The Impacts of Raising the Public Pension Eligibility Age on the Lifestyles of Elderly People: Evidence from Japan

By Shinya Inukai With many countries facing rapid population aging, the sustainability of public pensions has become a pressing issue. I evaluate the impacts, including both employment and time allocation, of public pension reform on the lifestyles of the elderly. In Japan, all residents aged 20 or older are covered by the public pension, with eligibility determined mechanically based on age. I focus on the reform raising men's eligibility age from 60 to 61 in 2001 and estimate its impact...

July 19, 2024
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19Jul

Dirty Air and Green Investments: The Impact of Pollution Information on Portfolio Allocations

By Raymond Fisman, Pulak Ghosh, Arkodipta Sarkar & Jian Zhang We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks are negatively related to local air pollution after a monitoring station appears nearby, with particularly pronounced effects on ``alert'' dates when air quality is listed as harmful to the general population. The effect of pollution information on...

July 19, 2024
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19Jul

Pension Reforms, Expectations, and Labour Market Behaviour

By Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Irene Ferrari & Yuri Pettinicchi This study examines how expectations about institutional settings and their reform affect middleaged individuals’ labour market behaviour in the context of these reforms. We exploit time and cross-country variation in pension regulations in six European countries. We show that, following a 1-year increase in the pension eligibility age (SEA), individuals expect to claim their pensions around 3.6 months later on average - adjustments are larger among women compared to men. Individuals with...

July 19, 2024
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17Jul

Reformas de pensiones en América Latina: Balanceando mejoras en beneficios y contención de la presión fiscal

Por S&P Global Ratings El envejecimiento demográfico y el aumento de las demandas sociales en América Latina han generado debates sobre reformas de pensiones, obligando a los gobiernos a abordar de manera equilibrada muchos objetivos que se contraponen. Las bajas tasas de contribución y el anémico y desigual crecimiento económico, entre otros factores, han provocado que sean insuficientes los ahorros para la jubilación para un porcentaje significativo de los beneficiarios del sistema de pensiones. Probablemente, la mayoría de las reformas...

July 17, 2024
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