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Who Participates in Defined Contribution Pension Systems When Informality is High? Evidence from 20 Years of Administrative Records from the Dominican Republic

Autor: Joubert, Clement: Scot, Thiago; Marínez, Isaac Rafael: Regalado, Pietter José; Flores, Tatiana; Rodríguez, Nicolas Garces
Año: 2025
Resumen: This note is part of a collaboration between the World Bank’s development research group (DECRG) and development impact group (DIME) and the Dominican Pension Superintendency (SIPEN), the autonomous agency responsible for supervising the private pension system. The main goal of this collaboration is to leverage the rich administrative data managed by SIPEN to provide insight on the performance of the pension system for policymakers and the public and conduct academic research that can guide pension policy in the DR and beyond. In particular, the administrative records of pension contributions constitute a complete dataset of matched employer-employee data, providing a comprehensive view of formal labor market dynamics and complete formal work history for individuals. The World Bank and SIPEN teams collaborated to extract a representative data sample suitable for data analysis and policy research, described in the data section below. While this study centers on the examination of contribution density patterns disaggregated by gender and birth cohorts, Appella and Zunino (2025) concurrently conducted a complementary analysis using the same dataset, with their research focusing specifically on estimating the determinants of contribution transitions.

Fuente: World Bank
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Labor History and Contribution Density in the Pension System of the Dominican Republic

Autor: Apella, Ignacio; Zunino, Gonzalo
Año: 2025
Resumen: 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 hazard rates of entering and exiting the contributory state in the pension system. Furthermore, a Monte Carlo simulation is performed to project contributory histories. The results suggest that the transition rates are relatively high, averaging a probability of exiting the contributory (non-contributory) state of 7 percent (6 percent). Moreover, the hazard rate of transitioning to a different state is negatively associated with the worker’s duration in the current state. These effects are conditioned to the age and income level of the worker. Finally, a simulation of new labor histories estimates that slightly more than 20 percent of the workers would meet the requirement of 30 years of contributions by age 60, and this percentage would exceed 40 percent if the required years of contributions were reduced to 20.

Fuente: World Bank
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Demographic Change, Non-communicable Diseases, and Human Capital

Autor: Banco Mundial
Año: 2024
Resumen: The World Bank has a long history of engaging in population issues, ranging from childhood illness, nutrition, fertility, and safe motherhood to the aging process. It supports countries in addressing the implications of the demographic process through analytical work, technical advice, and financing to expand health coverage, redesign pension systems and social security, and undertake actions that support their economies. This report follows that tradition and analyzes the steps to promote healthy longevity and enhance the quantity and quality of human capital through attention to the burgeoning problem of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Research began before COVID and concluded after, drawing upon lessons from the pandemic. The report is intended to inform policy and action at the country level. The demographic transformation is a global phenomenon, and the increasing population of the middle-aged and elderly brings with it many challenges which are more acute in low- and middle-income countries where resources are more limited. The increasing number of adults calls upon countries to institute the social and economic measures of ensuring their wellbeing and making them optimally productive. Health must be at the center of these concerns, not only its preservation towards the end but its optimization throughout the life-course. This report builds on a compendium of analytical papers covering the economics of avoidable mortality, long-term care, behavior change, social protection, and whole-of-government solutions to support healthy longevity. It emphasizes that a great deal of ill health globally is a result of inequities—especially poverty and gender inequities that limit or delay access to and use of health care. High out-of-pocket payments for NCDs can plunge households further into poverty or extreme poverty. Women live longer with NCD morbidities.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Libros
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Actuarial Considerations Around Climate-Related Risks on Social Security

Autor: D’Ambrogi-Ola, Barbara; Aktuaariyhdistys, Suomen; Billig, Assia; Fonseca Diaz, Ivan Alexis; Dong, Michelle; Dunnigan, Christine; Ruan, Jackie
Año: 2024
Resumen: Climate change is a global issue that poses significant risks worldwide. To mitigate its impact, it is imperative that experts from different fields collaborate and work together. This collaboration is crucial in developing science-based solutions that can help people and organizations cope with its potential consequences. […] To some extent, several economic and financial analyses address existing uncertainty by proposing plausible scenarios following economic and market equilibriums regarding the interaction between policymakers, financial and economic dynamics, and environmental responses. However, in most cases these analyses would benefit from solid probabilistic support. The authors of this paper hope that improved data, further research, and exploration of plausible scenarios will continue enhancing decision-makers’ understanding of the economic and financial costs associated with climate-related risks.

Fuente: The Institute of Social Studies and Analysis (ISSA)
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Reformas Paramétricas en los Programas de Pensiones Públicos de Reparto 1995 – Junio 2024

Autor: Federación Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (FIAP)
Año: 2024
Resumen: El objetivo de estos documentos es hacer una aproximación de las principales reformas paramétricas aprobada en los últimos años, en los programas de reparto de los sistemas de pensiones a nivel mundial. El trabajo tiene como referencia inicial, un estudio del Banco Mundial que recopila las principales reformas paramétricas adoptadas o aprobadas entre el período 1995 y 2005. Posteriormente, FIAP, a través de consultas a distintas fuentes de información sobre las reformas introducidas en los sistemas de seguridad social a nivel internacional (Social Security Administration de EE.UU., Consultoras internacionales como Mercer, AON Hewitt, y otras agencias y medios especializados en materia de pensiones y seguridad social) completa dicho recuento para el período que corresponda.

Fuente: Federación Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (FIAP)
Clasificación: Reformas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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