Can the State Engage in Self-Control? A Survey of Old-Age Security

Salvador Valdés-Prieto
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Salvador Valdés-Prieto: Universidad Católica de Chile

Chapter 9 in Contemporary Economic Issues, 1998, pp 170-210 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A major division of the literature on old-age security and the economics of pensions is between the economics of pensions and the economics of other forms of old-age security. Pensions are regular payments of money to the old, disabled and survivors. Non-pension sources of old-age security are intrafamily support, village-level institutions, charitable organizations, fertility and mortality; these are the mainstay of old-age security in the many developing countries where formal sector coverage is low.

Keywords: Pension Fund; Public Debt; Pension System; Pension Plan; Pension Benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26072-0_9

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