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Status of Social Security Provisions in Urban Unorganised Labour Market of Uttar Pradesh: A Field Check
Women workers in the informal economy are in extremely vulnerable situations, with no protection through labour laws, no effective policy measures to...
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Preferences for social insurance: the role of job security and risk propensity
In a 2003 article, Karl Moene (University of Oslo) and Michael Wallerstein (Yale University) demonstrated that wealthier citizens tend to support...
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Social security reforms, capital accumulation, and welfare: A notional defined contribution system vs a modified PAYG system
This paper studies social security reforms in a model with declining population growth and increasing life expectancy. Based on simulations using...
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Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlap** generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers
This paper develops an overlap** generation model of endogenous growth by incorporating an idiosyncratic productivity shock and heterogeneous...
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Social security and risk sharing: the role of economic mobility across generations
How well does social security jointly insure lifetime earnings risk and longevity risk? We show that the answer to this fundamental question depends...
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Making the Right to Social Security a Reality for All Workers
The right to social security has strong anchoring in international human rights law and forms a critical component of international labour standards....
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The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major threat to health and economic well-being in the USA, especially for older and disabled workers, and may...
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Social security reform and welfare in a two sector model
A reform of a pay-as-you-go social security in a one sector model makes the pensioners worse off and the working generations better off in the period...
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Social Security Reform
A well-functioning social security system plays a key role in promoting and supporting economic development, political and social stability, and the...
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Gender gap in the impact of social capital on household food security in Zimbabwe: does spatial proximity matter?
Despite the numerous strides that have been made towards ensuring food security since the launch of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals...
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Social Security and Pensions
The Spanish social security system is a single system, as is its Treasury. Nevertheless, an analysis of this system shows that in Catalonia, Social...
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Intriguing livelihood security strategies of the reversed migrant workers during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic-induced joblessness owing to job loss and quit, and the work-from-home facility has led to reverse migration. Salary cuts,...
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Social security contributions distribution and economic activity
This paper studies the macroeconomic and welfare implications of the distribution of the social security tax between employees and employers using a...
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Investment in children, social security, and intragenerational risk sharing
We analyze the role of pay-as-you-go social security in intragenerational risk sharing in an overlap**-generations model with individual...
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Advancing the Emergency Industry: Policy, Innovation, and Implications for National Security
This study delves into the transformative journey of China’s emergency industry, a crucial sector at the intersection of national security,...
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Exploring the nexus between poor governance and household food security
A cross-sectional-based study was conducted in Torghar Pakistan to analyze the association between impacts of poor governance and household food...
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Social Welfare ‘Schemes’ to an Economic Security ‘System’
This chapter synthesizes our arguments with a discussion on how to re-organize the ideas and praxis of social welfare policy in India with a...
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Population Aging and Establishment of the Social Security System
International experience has shown that population aging will place heavy pressure on the social security system. With the gradual increase in the...
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Report on the Development of Social Security in China’s Special Economic Zones
The period of the “13th Five-Year Plan” is a decisive stage for China to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and it is also an...
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Health and Social Security
This chapter provides evidence that population health in the Emerging European Economies (EEE) lagged behind the EU average before the start of the...