Los nuevos rostros de la marginalidad

la supervivencia de los desplazados

La marginalidad, la exclusión y la pobreza se han reconfigurado a la par de las transformaciones sociales y económicas que ha vivido la Argentina en los últimos años: piqueteros, cartoneros, beneficiarios de planes sociales, trabajadores de fábricas recuperadas, vendedores ambulantes, trabajadoras sexuales, talleristas, etc; nuevos ...

Minimum wages and poverty

an evaluation of policy alternatives

This research investigates the impact of three equal cost alternative labor market policies on the economic well-being of low-income families and society in general at the turn of the 21st century. The principal focus is on how changes in the minimum wage, Earned Income Tax ...

Understanding pensions

La cultura de las rentas básicas

historia de un concepto

La renta básica de ciudadanía

una propuesta clave para la renovación del estado del bienestar

Rethinking pension reform

Pension design and structure

new lessons from behavioral finance

La otra economía

International handbook on the economics of education

This book is unique as it presents an academic and a practical aspect on managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social security. The authors establish the basic choices in designating any system to help policy makers develop the system that achieves their ...

The economics of an aging society

This text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. It has a strong policy focus based on demographic and economic analysis, making it both accessible and challenging to readers with limited mathematical background. The discussion concentrates ...

Developing an annuity market in Europe

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities # financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into ...

Reforming pensions in Europe

evolution of pensions financing and resources of retirement income

Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of pay-as-you-go public pension in the face ...

Public pension fund management

governance, accountability, and investment policies

Until recently, #public pension fund management# is an area that received little attention by policymakers, practitioners, and development agencies. Even though there is growing interest in the public pension fund reform both in emerging and developed countries, there are not many resources available in the ...

La exclusión

bordeando sus fronteras: definiciones y matices

Los fenómenos de exclusión son hoy día tan graves como numerosos: no podemos contentarnos ya con meras aproximaciones empíricas, ni con indignaciones excesivamente moralistas. La exclusión pone en juego el destino de una cantidad creciente de sujetos particulares y de grupos sociales, - en términos de ...

The economics of an ageing population

macroeconomic issues

The Economics of an Ageing Population studies the effects of demographic transition on the economies of industrialised countries. The authors demonstrate that an ageing population does not necessarily lead to a reduction in growth, providing that the working population are more productive and save a ...

Remunerazione e previdenza dei ministri di culto

Pobres, pobreza, identidad y representaciones sociales

¿Pueden las actuales formas de conocer y definir las situaciones de pobreza dar cuenta de sus características y de las posibles formas de su superación? ¿Qué efectos producen los discursos y representaciones que los medios de comunicación construyen de "la pobreza" y en qué medida ...

Pension reform in Europe

process and progress

Pathologies of power

health, Human Rights, and the new war on the poor

The economics of health and health care