Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits : Facts, Concepts, Issues
Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions...
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Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/613941468170350968/Portability-of-pension-health-and-other-social-benefits-facts-concepts-issues http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27338 |
Summary: | Portability of social benefits across
professions and countries is an increasing concern for
individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete
transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively
impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity
to address social risks with consequences for economic and
social outcomes. The paper gives a fresh and provocative
look on the international perspective of the topic that has
so far been dominated by social policy lawyers working
within the framework of bilateral agreements; the input by
economists has been very limited. It offers an analytical
framework for portability analysis that suggests separating
the risk pooling, (implicit or actual) pre-funding and
redistributive elements in the benefit design and explores
the proposed alternative approach for pensions and health
care benefits. This promising approach may serve both as a
substitute and complement to bi- and multilateral agreements. |
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