March 2025
26Mar

Perú. Presentan nuevos proyectos de retiro AFP y CTS: ¿en qué consisten y cuánto se desembolsaría?

Continúan llegando más propuestas del desembolso excepcional. Recientemente, el Congreso de la República ha presentado nuevos proyectos de ley que buscan autorizar el retiro de fondos tanto de la Compensación por Tiempo de Servicios (CTS) como de los Fondos de las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP). Las propuestas, impulsadas por el congresista Flavio Cruz Mamani, se enfocan en aliviar la carga económica de los trabajadores ante la creciente inflación y crisis económica que afecta a muchas familias peruanas. Estos...

March 26, 2025
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21Mar

Informe de Cuidados: Observatorio Social Marzo 2024

Por Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia El presente documento tiene por objetivo mostrar un panorama general del cuidado en Chile y elaborar un diagnóstico que permita tomar decisiones informadas relativas a las nuevas y crecientes demandas de cuidado, además de revisar cómo éstas son abordadas en conjunto por el Estado, las familias y la sociedad. Dado que las necesidades de cuidado difieren sustantivamente entre la población de niños, niñas y adolescentes y la de adultos, el presente documento se enfoca...

March 21, 2025
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21Mar

Ciudad De México Información Laboral Marzo 2025

Por Gobierno de México La Proporción de la población ocupada laboralmente vulnerable, ya sea por la naturaleza de la unidad económica para la que trabajan o por carecer de un vínculo laboral no reconocido por su fuente de trabajo de acuerdo con el orden legal vigente. La tasa se calcula teniendo como referente a la población ocupada total. Libro completo aquí

March 21, 2025
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21Mar

2024 Informal Economy Report

By Moniepoint The informal economy, also known as the shadow economy, comprises businesses that are typically described as untaxed and unregistered. And it is all around you: your family, neighbours, and even friends who have side hustles to supplement their income. This report weaves critical data, insights and expert perspectives to illuminate and help you understand Nigeria’s shadow economy. Get the report here

March 21, 2025
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21Mar

The Causal Influence of Pension on the Participation of Older Workers in the Ghanaian Labour Market

By George Domfe, Kwadwo Opoku & Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko Population ageing has stirred up policy discourse on pension coverage in developing economies. While in most of these countries, a smaller proportion of older persons receive pensions in the form of regular payments from the state, a considerable proportion of them engage in active work to maintain their livelihood. These descriptions are typically true of Ghana. However, it remains unclear in the Ghanaian literature whether the absence of a pension is a...

March 21, 2025
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21Mar

Minimum Wage Policy and the Gender Wage Gap

By Hang Anh Nguyen, Martin O'Brien & Alfredo Paloyo Minimum wage policies have become a nearly universal feature of modern labour markets, with over 90% of countries implementing statutory wage floors since 2012 (Del Carpio & Pabon, 2014). Yet, despite their widespread adoption, the economic effects of minimum wages remain highly contested. Advocates argue that they boost earnings for lowwage workers, reduce income inequality, and mitigate poverty, while critics contend that they suppress productivity, distort wage structures, and incentivise firms...

March 21, 2025
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21Mar

Assessing the Permanent Income Hypothesis in Poor Areas: The Case of Rural Pensions in Brazil

By Bruno Kawaoka Komatsu, Lucas Dias & Naercio Menezes Filho In Brazil, poor women in family agriculture are entitled to a monthly unconditional pension from the government when they turn 55, a large predictable income increase for rural families. In this paper, we use a national family expenditure survey and a fuzzy regression discontinuity design strategy to estimate the impacts of that pension on consumption, finance and labor market indicators. We show that the rural pension increases income by 50%,...

March 21, 2025
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20Mar

What Age Do People Around the World Think Is Best to Reach Major Life Milestones?

When is the right time in life to get married or have a child? What is the best age to buy a home? Is there an ideal age for retirement? We asked adults in 18 mostly middle-income countries what they think is the best age to reach these life milestones. Overall, there is a lot of agreement around the world. A chart showing The ideal ages for major life events, according to people in 18 nations On average across the countries...

March 20, 2025
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20Mar

UK. DWP State Pension age to rise next year for thousands

The State Pension age will be rising from next year, the age is currently 66 for both men and women. It will gradually increase to 67 between 2026 and 2028 for those born after April 1960. The transition process is then expected to be completed for everyone by March 2028. The planned change to the official age of retirement has been in legislation since 2014, with a further rise from 67 to 68, which is set to be implemented between...

March 20, 2025
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20Mar

US. Some retirees will see bump in Social Security benefit starting next month

Retirement just got a little boost for many public sector retirees and their spouses. By the end of this month, more than 3 million Social Security recipients affected by the Social Security Fairness Act that President Biden signed into law in January will see a bump in their benefits. This law increases monthly Social Security benefits for certain types of workers, including some teachers, firefighters, and police officers in many states, federal employees covered by the Civil Service Retirement System, and...

March 20, 2025
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