June 2025
13Jun

Immigration and Adult Children’s Care for Elderly Parents: Evidence from Western Europe

By Andrea Berlanda, Elisabetta Lodigiani & Lorenzo Rocco In this paper, we use the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), complemented with register data on the share of the foreign population in the European regions, to examine the effects of migration on the level of informal care provided by children to their senior parents. Our main results show that migration decreases informal care among daughters with a university degree, while it increases the provision of informal care...

June 13, 2025
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13Jun

LGBTQ+ Americans Face Retirement Inequities

By Pension Rights Center Pride Month is observed each June to mark the 1969 Stonewall Uprising that sparked the LGBTQ+  rights movement in the United States. Celebrations are centered around building community, recognizing the progress made towards equality, and honoring those who have made that progress possible. But Pride Month is also an opportunity to reflect on the work yet to be done, including the inequities that persist when it comes to the retirement income security of LGBTQ+ older adults. According...

June 13, 2025
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11Jun

Derechos de las personas de la diversidad sexual

Por Georgina Vargas Vera, Sebastián Valencia Quiceno, María José Gutiérrez Rodríguez & Cristian Rodríguez Barrón Lamentablemente, la comunidad de la diversidad sexual ha enfrentado diferentes situaciones de discriminación y violencia. Los casos que han llegado a la Corte lnteramericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) muestran cómo los actos de discriminación impactan diversos ámbitos de la vida de las personas, como las relaciones familiares, aspiraciones o vocaciones profesionales, e incluso la expectativa de vida. Al reconocer los derechos de las personas que...

June 11, 2025
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11Jun

Relaciones entre envejecimiento activo y población LGTB+

Por Natalia Camila Gramajo Graña El siguiente artículo propone un estado de la cuestión sobre las relaciones entre el envejecimiento activo y la población LGTB+ con el propósito de comprender cómo influye una sexualidad por fuera de la cisheteronormatividad en el proceso de envejecimiento. Para ello, se realizó una búsqueda en las bases de Google Académico la cual se mostraron 772 resultados. Luego, una selección en base a los títulos que arrojó una muestra de 25 textos. A partir de...

June 11, 2025
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11Jun

Sostenibilidad Financiera del Sistema de Pensiones en Ecuador

Por Franchesca Odalys Villarruel Bolaños, Mercedes Elizabeth Vargas Moreno, Angel Oswaldo Loor Saldarriaga, Nelly Carolina Abril Buenaño & Alex Estuardo Merino Garnica Una de las grandes y permanentes dificultades latentes en el Ecuador son las falencias existentes en el sistema de seguridad social, por lo que se ha presentado una vez más la polémica sobre la sostenibilidad financiera en lo concerniente al sistema de pensiones. Es necesario mencionar que, según información del IESS, el número de afiliados pasó de 2,7...

June 11, 2025
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11Jun

La importancia de la inmigración en el mercado laboral americano

Por José Iván Rodríguez-Sánchez  La inmigración ha sido un tema controvertido en los Estados Unidos por décadas. Los críticos de la migración han querido establecer, erróneamente, que los trabajadores inmigrantes impactan negativamente a los trabajadores nativos en los Estados Unidos. Argumentan que los inmigrantes desplazan a estos trabajadores y deprimen sus salarios. Además, la retórica del expresidente Donald Trump, al llamar a los trabajadores indocumentados criminales, asesinos y violadores, crea un ambiente hostil e impide entender, primero, las causas por...

June 11, 2025
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06Jun

Milliman Pension Buyout Index May 2025

By Jake Pringle & Ryan Cook Estimated competitive retiree buyout cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, decreased by 140 bps from 102.5% to 101.1% during April As the pension risk transfer market continues to grow, it has become increasingly important for plan sponsors to monitor the annuity buyout market when considering a plan termination or de-risking strategy. Figure 1 illustrates retiree buyout costs with two different metrics: The red line represents only the most competitive insurers' rates from each month,...

June 6, 2025
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06Jun

PensionsEurope’s Position Paper on the European Commission’s Omnibus Simplification Proposal

By Pension Europe PensionsEurope welcomes the European Commission (EC) initiative which aims to align crucial EU legislation concerning Sustainable Finance. PensionsEurope firmly believes that the competitiveness of the EU economy is vital, it is possible to reduce the administrative burden without undermining the EU's policy objectives regarding the green transition. However, any simplification should be carefully balanced to ensure that material sustainability information on risks, opportunities, and impacts-critical to informed investor decision-making-is preserved. Accordingly, the Omnibus package should aim to streamline...

June 6, 2025
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06Jun

Optimal Income Redistribution

By Pavel Brendler, Eva Carceles-Poveda & Arpad Abraham We study whether a redesign of the social security and income tax-and-transfer systems can deliver significant welfare gains. Our rich quantitative model features both realistic inequality over the life-cycle and the key main channels through which redistributive policies can distort aggregate allocations. We find that there are two distinct ways to achieve significant welfare gains with joint policy reforms. The first prioritizes reducing distortions through a regressive pension system, resulting in higher...

June 6, 2025
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06Jun

Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation

By Abdoulaye Ndiaye & Zhixiu Yu Raising the retirement age is a common policy response when social security schemes face fiscal pressures. We develop and estimate a dynamic life cycle model to study optimal retirement and tax policy when individuals face health shocks and income risk and make endogenous retirement decisions. The model incorporates key features of Social Security, Medicare, income taxation, and savings incentives and distinguishes three channels through which health affects retirement: nonconvexities in labor supply due to...

June 6, 2025
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