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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Turkish Social Insurance Institute Gradual Privatization Proposal

Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

decades. One alternative adopted in several countries is the privatization of so-called pay-as-you-go financing systems. The … privatization of the Turkish Social Insurance Institute, SSK. Based heavily upon data provided by the International Labor … Organization, financial projections of the institution were made and extended to apply benefit-cost models of privatization …

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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Reforming the Turkish Social Insurance Institution for the Self-Employed (Bağ-Kur)

Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

privatization of the Turkish Social Insurance Institute for Self –Employed Persons, “BK”. Based on data provided by the … privatization. Present value of the change in net social benefit was estimated. The effect of privatization on representative … individuals has also been quantified. Results indicate that social benefits associated with a privatization alternative exceed the …

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Türk Sosyal Güvenlik Sisteminin Değerlendirilmesi ve Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumlarının Finansal Geleceği

Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Turkish social security system has been developed under various social security institutions to provide social insurance against various social risks since 1945. Although the system has just 62 years history, it is in such situation that it is just able to provide its services with income...

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Old age pensions in Mexico: Toward universal coverage

Willmore, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper chronicles the rise of social pensions in Mexico. First it summarizes the pension system prior to introduction of social pensions. Next it describes how Mexico City, the federal government, and seventeen of Mexico’s 31 states initiated social pensions, a policy supported eventually...

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Beyond the privatization and re-nationalisation of the Argentine pension system: coverage, fragmentation, and sustainability

Bertranou, Fabio; Cetrángolo, Oscar; Grushka, Oscar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the last decades, the pension system in Argentina has experienced important changes that included the introduction of an individual account defined-contribution component (or individual capitalisation) in 1994 and its subsequent reversal to a defined benefit pay-as-you-go pension scheme in...

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Old-Age Pension Reform and Modernization Pathways: Lessons for China from Latin America

Calvo, Esteban; Williamson, John B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

While numerous Western countries first experienced cultural rationalization, next economic modernization, and then faced the challenges of population aging and pension policy reform, both Latin America and China, in contrast, are dealing with these challenges in the context of much less...

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Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

Bertranou, Fabio; Calvo, Esteban; Bertranou, Evelina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This brief reviews two rounds of pension reforms in ten Latin American countries to determine whether they are moving away from individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Although the idea is provocative, we conclude that the notion of “moving away from IRAs” is insufficient to characterize the...

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Better Safe than Sorry - Individual Risk-Free Pension Schemes in the European Union

Peeters, Marga - 2012

Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility, across country borders but also within the countries of the European Union. From a macroeconomic perspective, and in the light of demographic pressure, this paper argues that...

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Typical and atypical employment contracts: the case of Italy

Tealdi, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Atypical work refers to employment relationships, which do not conform to the standard model of full-time job of unlimited duration with a single employer. They differ from the typical contract in terms of legal regulations as well as requirements and benefits the worker is entitled to. This...

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Social Security and Retirement across the OECD

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Employment to population ratios differ markedly across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, especially for people aged over 55 years. In addition, social security features differ markedly across the OECD, particularly with respect to features such as...

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