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Mapping the Unpaid Care Work Economy in Asia

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:adbewp:0777&r=&r=age

Published: April 30, 2025 00:00

Aging populations in Asia are worried that they are facing a “care crisis, ” with many older people in need of care having no one to care for them. However, we do not have a clear picture of current care patterns: How much care is currently being consumed?…

Participation in Pension Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11105&r=&r=age

Published: April 24, 2025 00:00

Low- and middle-income countries are aging rapidly but stagnation of growth in participation in pension programs, due to widespread informal employment, presents a major fiscal challenge. Some claim that improving the design of pension program rules can…

Labor History and Contribution Density in the Pension System of the Dominican Republic

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11103&r=&r=age

Published: April 17, 2025 00:00

This paper estimates the proportion of workers who would meet the required contribution periods to access a contributory retirement pension in the Dominican Republic. Using microdata from labor histories, the paper proposes a survival model to estimate the…

Micro-Evidence on the Consumption Impact of Income-Support Policies During COVID-19

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2025/064&r=&r=age

Published: April 4, 2025 00:00

Income-support policies can boost consumption during a catastrophic episode like the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on Chilean municipalities, we investigate the impact on private consumption of income-support policies, such as lump-sum transfers and…

Costly attention and retirement

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ifs:ifsewp:25/14&r=&r=age

Published: April 1, 2025 00:00

Breaking Barriers in Retirement Planning: Evidence from Colombia’s Dual-Advisory Program

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:col:000089:021365&r=&r=age

Published: March 27, 2025 00:00

This paper investigates the impact of behavioral frictions and information provision on retirement planning through the Dual Advisory program in Colombia. The program gradually became mandatory to prevent costly mistakes and offered personalized…

Welfare Effects of Social Care Policies

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ese:cempwp:cempa5-25&r=&r=age

Published: March 26, 2025 00:00

One challenge presented by population aging is how to adjust public support for social care in a way that achieves desired quality of life outcomes without compromising budget sustainability. This study uses best-practice methods of economic analysis to…

How Do Rising Care Needs Impact the Formal and Informal Care Sectors and Existing Inequalities?. Comparing Austria and Spain

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wfo:wpaper:y:2025:i:700&r=&r=age

Published: March 6, 2025 00:00

As populations in Asia and Europe face unprecedented levels of ageing, the demand for long-term care (LTC) is escalating, thereby challenging the sustainability of social protection systems. This paper employs a novel dynamic microsimulation model to…

Personalized Reminders: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Voluntary Retirement Savings in Colombia

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:528&r=&r=age

Published: March 5, 2025 00:00

A large share of the global workforce lacks access to employer-sponsored retire- ment plans. In Colombia, where labor informality is high, the government introduced the Beneficios Económicos Periódicos (BEPS) program to promote voluntary retirement…

A tale of three pandemics: Impacts on life expectancy and lifespan inequality

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wai:econwp:25/02&r=&r=age

Published: February 21, 2025 00:00

This study aims to provide a comparative analysis of the impacts of three significant pandemics - the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic - on life expectancy and lifespan inequality. Using cause-eliminated life…