January 2024
19Jan

Social Security and Inequality in Belgium

By Giulia Klinges, Alain Jousten & Mathieu Lefebvre Over the years, the Belgian social security system has undergone substantial reform with a prime focus on increasing older worker labor force participation. The paper explores the effect of past reforms on inequality in old age. We distinguish two separate effects: The mechanical effect considers the change in inequality and expected benefit levels due to the reforms for a fixed retirement age distribution. The behavioral effect accounts for the endogenous change caused...

January 19, 2024
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19Jan

Occupations Shape Retirement Across Countries

By Philip Sauré, Arthur Seibold, Elizaveta Smorodenkova & Hosny Zoabi We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and retirement that is present across institutional settings. Finally, we find that occupational composition is an important determinant of aggregate retirement behavior across...

January 19, 2024
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12Jan

Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security, 2023

By Social Security Administration  People contribute to Social Security through payroll taxes or self-employment taxes, as required by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) and the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA). The maximum taxable amount is updated annually on the basis of increases in the average wage. Of the 181 million workers with earnings in Social Security–covered employment in 2022, about 7% had earnings that equaled or exceeded the maximum amount subject to taxes, compared with 3% when the program began...

January 12, 2024
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12Jan

The State of Pensions 2023: Year End Update

By Anthony Randazzo & Jonathan Moddy  In 2023, U.S. public pension funds remain fragile. According to Equable Institute’sState of Pensions 2023 report, state and municipal retirement systems are on track to miss their investment targets and are unlikely to see meaningful improvements in their unfunded liabilities or funded ratio in 2023. In this post, we will look at pension funding trends and detail the health of pension funds in an increasingly unpredictable market and where risky investments are more popular than ever....

January 12, 2024
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12Jan

Between Individual Risk and State Responsibility: 20 Years of Swedish Premium Pensions

By Anika Seemann  In 2000, the Swedish pension reform of 1998 led to the introduction of a capital-funded pension component with individual investment accounts in the first pillar of the pension system, known as the premium pension. This article takes the 20th anniversary of the Swedish premium pension as an opportunity for a fundamental evaluation. It shows which guiding principles the premium pension system was founded on when it was introduced, which problems have arisen since its introduction, how the...

January 12, 2024
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12Jan

Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

By Michael Wickens  Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties. These measures reveal that the pension spaces of advanced economies are strikingly different. Most nations have little scope to further finance pensions out of labour income  taxation over the next thirty years. There is no one-size-fits-all solution....

January 12, 2024
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12Jan

The Fiscal Cost of Aging in Belgium: Pensions and Healthcare

By Jean-Jacques Hallaert Belgium faces a fiscal consolidation challenge at a time when the fiscal cost of aging—primarily related to pension and health outlays—is mounting. Pension spending will increase relatively fast unless a combination of measures related to pension generosity and retirement eligibility are put in place. Potential efficiency gains are large in the health sector and could absorb part of the fiscal and reorganization costs related to an aging population. Source SSRN

January 12, 2024
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03Jan

Gasto público en América Latina y el Caribe: sistemas de clasificación para analizar la asignación de recursos

Por Andrea Podestá El objetivo del presente documento es proporcionar un panorama completo del gasto público en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, a través de la clasificación funcional y del gasto social según la metodología de la base de datos sobre gasto social (SOCX) de la Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE). Esta información estadística detallada y comparable del gasto público por finalidad y función, así como por programas con fines sociales, permite analizar, formular e...

January 3, 2024
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03Jan

Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe 2023: la inclusión laboral como eje central para el desarrollo social inclusivo

Por Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe En esta edición del Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe se abordan los desafíos de la inclusión laboral como eje central para el desarrollo social inclusivo. A pesar de una recuperación en 2022 de los indicadores sociales (reducción de la pobreza y la desigualdad, recuperación del empleo), se enfrenta una doble trampa de bajo crecimiento y altos niveles de pobreza y desigualdad. La inclusión laboral es clave para combatir...

January 3, 2024
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03Jan

El rol de los fondos de pensiones para promover mejores estándares de gobierno corporativo

Por Federación Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones El Gobierno Corporativo (GC) es un conjunto de normas, prácticas y procedimientos que determinan y regulan las acciones al interior de una empresa, estableciendo derechos y obligaciones a las distintas partes involucradas. Las buenas prácticas de GC favorecen la integridad de las empresas, instituciones financieras y mercados. Las empresas que adoptan dichas prácticas incrementan su eficiencia, reducen costos, limitan el riesgo y se legitiman ante la sociedad y los mercados, lo...

January 3, 2024
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