Is there a positive incentive effect from privatizing social security
Subtitle: evidence from Latin America
By: Truman G. Packard.
Contributors: World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Human Development Sector Management Unit.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2719; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2719.
Publisher: World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Human Development Sector Unit
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Individual retirement accounts -- Latin America -- Econometric models.; Social security individual investment accounts -- Latin America -- Econometric models.; Pensions -- Latin America -- Econometric models.
Genres: Econometric models.
Description: Introducing individual retirement accounts has a positive incentive effect that increases the share of the economically active population contributing to the reformed pension system. But this effect occurs only gradually as employers and workers become familiar with the new set of social insurance institutions put in place by reform.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16).
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