April 2026
30Apr

Nigeria: CPs – Pencom Sustains Push for States, Others

The National Pension Commission has sustained the drive for states, local governments and employers in formal sector to fully embrace the Contributory Pension Scheme, writes Ebere Nwoji One of the major headaches of the present leadership of the pension sector regulatory authority, the National Pension Commission (PenCom), is how to succeed in making every Nigerian with genuine means of livelihood enrol into the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). The commission said the overall aim is to ensure that at advanced age, every...

April 30, 2026
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30Apr

Greece. ‘They treat me like a dog’ – 89-year-old opens fire in Athens office over long-running pension dispute

An 89-year-old man opened fire inside a social security office in central Athens and later at a courthouse, injuring five people. According to his own statements, the incident was driven by a long-running dispute over his pension and a sense of injustice. The shootings unfolded on Monday at an office of Greece's main social security body, EFKA, in the Kerameikos area of Athens. Five people were injured, including employees and members of the public, inside the building at the time. None of the injuries...

April 30, 2026
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29Apr

Informal Workers in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot

By José de Jesús Luján Salazar & Joann Vanek In Mexico City and urban Mexico, women comprise 42 per cent and men 58 per cent of the labour force. In Mexico nationally, women’s share is slightly lower at 39 per cent. Between 2013 and 2019, employment in Mexico increased by more than 5 million workers but women’s share of employment did not increase significantly. The data in this brief are based on the second quarter of the 2013 and 2019 Encuesta Nacional...

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

Crypto-assets and decentralised finance. Report on stablecoins, crypto-investment products and multifunction groups : October 2025

By European Systemic Risk Board Financial stability risks are mounting in 2025 as crypto-assets, including stablecoins, go mainstream, buoyed by forceful US policy measures. By mid-2025, the crypto-asset market had reached record valuations, largely driven by US pro-crypto policies aimed at boosting demand for US Treasuries and reinforcing the dollar’s dominance. In this context, the ESRB’s General Board noted in June 2025 that the growing links between the crypto sector and the financial sector should be closely monitored. It also voiced...

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

Gambling for Retirement: The Economics of Savings Lotteries

By Jared Gars, Justin Holz, Rodemeier & Juan Miguel Villa Governments frequently use lottery-like incentives to encourage socially desirable behavior ("Pigouvian lotteries"). We study lotteries that encourage retirement savings in a nationwide field experiment with over 380,000 participants in Colombia's public pension system. Lotteries increase savings during the qualification period, but this effect is almost entirely offset by subsequent declines in savings, as workers strategically shift the timing of deposits. Lotteries also crowd out demand for valuable life and disability...

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

The Welfare Effects of Protecting Older Workers

By Todd Morris, Stefan Staubli & Benoit Dostie We evaluate the welfare effects of five provincial mandatory retirement bans in Canada from 2005 to 2009 using linked employer-employee tax data. The bans sharply reduce retirements at age 65, with sizable announcement effects and heterogeneity across industries. Post-65 employment and earnings rise at least 14%, with gains comparable to a two-year increase in pension-eligibility ages. Older workers save more and spouses postpone retirement, benefiting public finances, with no observable effects on...

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

Threats of AI? Workers’ perceptions of technological change and precautionary saving behaviour

By Kun Lee, Ludivine Martin & Thuc-Uyen Nguyen-Thi Despite the extensive literature on the labour market impacts of technological change, workers’ behavioural adaptation to augmented technological risks remains relatively underexplored. In this study, we investigate workers’ perceptions of future risks posed by AI and advanced technologies and how these perceptions are causally linked with their precautionary saving behaviour. Using a novel survey of workers in Luxembourg – a country characterised by rapid technological change and dynamic labour markets – we...

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

La Inversión Extranjera Directa en América Latina y el Caribe, 2025

Por CEPAL La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) presenta la edición 2025 de su informe anual La Inversión Extranjera Directa en América Latina y el Caribe en un escenario internacional de incertidumbre y elevada tensión geopolítica, que agrava las tres trampas del desarrollo que enfrenta la región: una de baja capacidad para crecer; otra de alta desigualdad, baja movilidad social y débil cohesión social, y una tercera de bajas capacidades institucionales y de gobernanza poco efectiva....

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

Panorama laboral 2025. América Latina y el Caribe

Por Organización Internacional del Trabajo La región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) se encuentra en un escenario caracterizado por crecimiento económico moderado, estabilidad relativa en los indicadores laborales y persistencia de desafíos estructurales. La región ha mostrado resiliencia ante un contexto internacional marcado por tensiones geopolíticas, volatilidad comercial y riesgos climáticos, pero los avances en materia de trabajo decente siguen siendo insuficientes para cerrar las brechas históricas. América Latina y el Caribe registró en 2025 su tercer año consecutivo...

April 29, 2026
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29Apr

Los retos del regulador de pensiones en Costa Rica: reinvención urgente y enfoque dinámico

Por Raúl Alfonso Espinoza Estrada Costa Rica enfrenta una encrucijada crítica en materia previsional. En la última década, su sistema de pensiones ha experimentado cambios profundos: un acelerado crecimiento de los fondos administrados, la incursión en inversiones globales complejas y tendencias demográficas desafiantes. Actualmente, los activos de los fondos de pensiones costarricenses equivalen a casi la mitad del PIB nacional (Superintendencia de Pensiones, 2024), y continúan en rápido ascenso. Este artículo pretende describir los retos del regulador de pensiones en...

April 29, 2026
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