February 2017

03Feb

Tax treatment of pensions and pensioners

By OECD The personal tax system plays an important role in old-age support. Pensioners often do not pay social security contributions. Personal income taxes are progressive and pension entitlements are usually lower than earnings before retirement, so the average tax rate on pension income is typically less than the tax rate on earned income. In addition, most income tax systems give preferential treatment either to pension incomes or to pensioners, through additional allowances or credits to older people. Full Content: OECD

February 3, 2017
Labor Market
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03Feb

Pensions statistics

By OECD This dataset includes pension funds statistics with OECD classifications by type of pension plans and by type of pension funds. All types of plans are included (occupational and personal, mandatory and voluntary). The OECD classification considers both funded and book reserved pension plans that are workplace-based (occupational pension plans) or accessed directly in retail markets (personal pension plans). Both mandatory and voluntary arrangements are included. The data includes plans where benefits are paid by a private sector entity...

February 3, 2017
Investing, Labor Market
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03Feb

Pensions at a Glance (Edition 2016)

By OECD The Pensions at a Glance database includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary pensions. It covers 34 OECD countries and aims to cover all G20 countries. Pensions at a Glance reviews and analyses the pension measures enacted or legislated in OECD countries. It provides an in-depth review of the first layer of protection of the elderly, first-tier pensions across countries and provideds a comprehensive selection of pension policy indicators for all OECD and...

February 3, 2017
Labor Market
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03Feb

Nueva ley del ISSSTE y pensiones de retiro

By María Asención Morales Ramírez La nueva Ley del ISSSTE, publicada el 31 de marzo de 2007 en el Diario Oficial de la Federación, de manera general considera cambios en tres aspectos: seguros, pensiones y salud. Respecto de los primeros, presenta una nueva estructura al reducir los 21 seguros y prestaciones a 4 seguros (salud, riesgos de trabajo, retiro, cesantía en edad avanzada y vejez e invalidez y vida), más prestaciones y servicios que estarán en función de la capacidad...

February 3, 2017
Asignación de recursos, Noticias, Spanish
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03Feb

Derechos sociales y prohibición de regresividad: el caso issste y su voto de minoría

By Fernando Silva y Emmanuel Rosales Tanto la doctrina académica como la jurisprudencial han reconocido la prohibición de regresividad de los derechos sociales. En términos muy generales, dicha norma "constitucional" implica que las leyes no deben empeorar la situación de regulación del derecho vigente, desde el punto de vista del alcance y amplitud del goce de los derechos sociales. En todo caso, la regresividad de una norma legal en materia de seguridad social determina una presunción de invalidez o de...

February 3, 2017
Artículos, Noticias, Spanish
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03Feb

Social Reforms in China: 2016-2020

By Andoni Maiza and Ricardo Bustillo The need to evolve from an export-based economic model towards a different model where domestic consumption plays a larger role is what has driven the Chinese government to design new social policies to give households greater confidence and boost consumption levels. The 13th Five-Year Plan 2016-2020 includes measures to expand the coverage of the pension system, health insurance, and unemployment insurance, and also provides for a new raise to the minimum wage. However, there...

February 3, 2017
Regulation, System Sustainability
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03Feb

Constitutional Reform and Universal Pension Law

By Noemí Monroy Enriquez En México, en los próximos años, la tendencia demográfica se caracterizará por el incremento de la población adulta de 65 años o más, la cual, en su mayoría, no cuenta con algún ingreso para su subsistencia. El fenómeno del incremento de la población de edad avanzada no solamente es nacional; de acuerdo con el informe de Naciones Unidas, el crecimiento de la población adulta de 60 años y más se ha acelerado, lo que genera todo...

February 3, 2017
Adequacy, Regulation
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03Feb

Market risk analysis for Mexico´s pension funds: an autoregressive approach

By Marissa Martínez and Francisco Venegas The aim of this paper is to analyze the market risk of two types of investment funds, Basic SIEFORE 1 (SB1) and Basic SIEFORE 2 (SB2). To do this, we propose a performance index that will be used in ARIMA-GARCH models and some of its extensions, with the purpose of examining the dynamic behavior of the returns and their volatility on such investment funds. Moreover, the risk premium of both types of funds is...

February 3, 2017
Investing, Savings,
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03Feb

Social security, pensions and old age adults’ poverty in Mexico.

By Araceli Damián After discussing the role of pension systems in capitalism as instruments of redistribution of income between capital and labor and, therefore, of the class struggle, it is recounted how, in a context of a fragmented and inconclusive Welfare State, pension systems emerged in Mexico, and recent reforms to pension systems are analyzed, showing their impact in the reduction of benefits. Lastly, the poverty of the population of retirement age is analyzed in relation to their access to...

February 3, 2017
Labor Market, System Sustainability,
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03Feb

Pensions in Mexico A Long-Term Risk

By Victor M. Soria With the coming of economic globalization, over the last two decades, pre-existing problems in pension systems in practically all the countries of the world have sharpened. On the one hand, with increased life expectancy, the population pyramid now contains a larger number of retired persons and people ofretirement age; the increase in unemployment has lowered the number of contributors to social security systems; and on the other hand, financial liberalization and the economic adjustments brought by globalization...

February 3, 2017
Investing, Savings,
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