Social Security and the Informal Sector in Latin America
Author: Carmelo Mesa-Lago
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 56
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Author: Carmelo Mesa-Lago
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carmelo Mesa-Lago
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Paul McGreevey
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study reviews the findings of a number of background papers on social security in Latin America, sector work, and a series of three meetings of experts that explored the major issues facing social security institutions. In Latin America, social security institutes have been competently managed for the most part and have a proven record of successfully delivering social services to their members. The central theme of this report is the great, and largely untapped, potential of social security institutions to relieve poverty in Latin America. By taking advantage of the positive characteristics of these institutions and repairing at least some of the efficiency problems, countries could achieve an enhanced level of income security for the aged, better coverage of basic health services, and wider protection from economic disasters for the whole population. A wider revenue base would accommodate an increase in coverage of the population if combined with a prudently designed benefit package. There is ample evidence from countries in the region that have experimented with such reforms that they can be made, and that they are desirable and feasible on economic grounds. Political feasibility is more difficult to assess but can be enhanced by well informed, carefully designed reforms.
Author: Helena Ribe
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 082138399X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study highlights the interaction between social protection programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, for health, for unemployment risks and for anti poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. It argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. Instead, it advocates well-targeted, tax-funded tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and safety net transfers.
Author: Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-01-31
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0199233772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.
Author: Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 1978-11-15
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 082297620X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. Individual case studies of Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Argentina, and Mexico are presented, that provide a historical analysis of each country's social security policy, the pressure groups involved, the present structure of the systems, and a statistical examination of the inequality among these pressure groups.
Author: Norman A. Loayza
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Guillermo Perry
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0821370936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. This book uses two distinct but complementary lenses. It concludes that reducing informality levels and overcoming the "culture of informality" will require actions to increase aggregate productivity in the economy.
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1988-02-22
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 1451921373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe paper surveys the major economic, financial, and administrative issues that confront social security systems in Latin America. The larger systems have contributed substantially to public sector financial disequilibria. Expenditures of the younger systems with more limited coverage could increase dramatically as the pension plan matures, life expectancy increases, and coverage is broadened, but the narrow revenue base will force a tradeoff between broader coverage and the generosity of benefits. Most plans are pay-as-you-go, and the case for full or partial funding is not found to be compelling. The inflationary environment can have a substantial effect on the financial balance, even under full indexation.
Author: D. Coletto
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-25
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0230113990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy.