Supplementary Pension Coverage in Britain

Economically Dependent Persons Without Pension Coverage in Old Age

Bovnc persons, chiefly women, reach old age in a state of economac dependence witholct being able to qualify for a social securzty benefit-because thev neucr acquire insured status for themselves and do not belong to the group of dependents who qualify on the basis of relationship ‘to a retired or deceaeed insured worker. This article analyzes data front two Social Security Admznistration. aurc...

Pension Coverage, Private Saving Decisions and Mandatory Contributions in Chile

Twenty-seven years after switching to a fully-funded privately-managed pension system, Chilean lawmakers are concerned that only 58% of the labor force made contributions in 2000. I develop a dynamic model of the joint husband and wife labor and saving decisions to study whether mandatory contributions affects incentives to choose self-insurance over social insurance. Households face a dual lab...

CHOICE OF PENSION SCHEME AND JOB MOBILITY IN BRITAIN Richard Disney

This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household panel data for the 1990s to show that individuals that subsequently move job select pension arrangements ...

Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China

Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-ex...

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