Swiss vote to give themselves a bigger pension

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 16:00

Swiss voters have given themselves an extra month's pension each year - in a nationwide referendum focusing on living standards for the elderly. The government had warned that the increased payments would be too expensive to afford. But almost 60% of voters said 'yes' in Sunday's poll. Separately, 75% rejected raising the pension age from 65 to 66. The maximum monthly state pension is €2,550 (£2,180; $2,760) - not enough, many say, to live on in Switzerland.

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Platform work in developing economies: Can digitilisation drive structural transformation?

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 15:32

ilo.org (31.12.2023) This paper discusses the expansion or penetration of digital economic activity in the context of developing economies, and what this may mean for economic or structural transformations for countries in the global South. We ask what possibilities new jobs and forms of work in the digital economy hold – in particular platform work – for the productive transformation of economies in ways that contribute to achieving the goals of human, inclusive and sustainable development. What are the impacts on work and workers in this process?

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Digital economy
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Les Suisses votent pour un 13ème mois de pension

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:16

la-croix.com (03.03.2024) La Suisse, dont la population vieillissante est confrontée à un coût de la vie en hausse, a voté dimanche en faveur d'un 13ème mois de retraite, un pas "historique" selon ses défenseurs, mais a rejeté le relèvement de l'âge du départ.

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switzerland
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Pensions
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World Bank Urges Malaysia to Mandate Retirement Savings for Digital Platform Workers

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:59

bnnbreaking.com (26.02.2024) The World Bank recommends mandatory retirement savings for digital platform workers in Malaysia to safeguard informal workers in the gig economy. Explore the challenges faced by informal workers and the government's response to ensure economic security.

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malaysia
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Pensions
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The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 02/29/2024 - 16:11

cornell.edu (05.02.2024) The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope explains how an array of social welfare programs (comprising the safety net) have emerged as a leitmotif of social policy in independent India and explores the key challenges and scope for innovations in redesigning India’s social safety net system for the future. This open-access book provides a comprehensive analysis of India’s safety net by combining insights from a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship on economic development, social protection, and the social policy process.

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india
Global challenges
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Programme evaluation
Programme & evaluation
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Revenu de base garanti, l'expérience positive du Kenya

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 02/27/2024 - 09:47

radiofrance.fr -Esther Duflo (26.02.2024) Depuis 2018, le Kenya expérimente le revenu de base garanti. Une expérience qui, non seulement n'a pas créé d'oisiveté, mais en plus a permis aux bénéficiaires de s'émanciper. Ils ont investi, sont devenus plus entreprenants et ont gagné davantage.

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kenya
Global challenges
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Youth employment policies: Patterns and trends in two unique data sets

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 02/23/2024 - 15:21

ILO Working paper 108 (19.02.2024) Youth employment challenges are always a critical concern for policymakers. There is recurring and mounting evidence that labour market challenges, such as unemployment, informality, lack of social protection and inactivity, disproportionately affect youths.

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Employment of young workers
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Why South Korea Has So Many Elderly Still in the Workforce

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 02/23/2024 - 14:51

TIME (19.02.2024) Some 24.5% of South Koreans aged 70 and above were still working as of January, local media reported Monday, as officials increasingly look to keep more elderly in the workforce to address a demographic crisis. Elderly employment figures have seen a steady increase since the country’s statistics authority started to collect the data in 2005.  South Korea is projected to become the world’s most aged by 2044 and the number of people in their 70s exceeded those in their 20s for the first time ever last year.

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korea, Republic of
Global challenges
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Old-age pensions
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Addressing Inequality in Budgeting : Lessons from Recent Country Experience

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 02/22/2024 - 11:16

OECD (19.02.2024) In many countries, public expenditure, including transfers, plays a major role in reducing income inequality. The report reviews the various ways that budgeting can be used to this end. A first includes taking a broad approach to results-based budgeting, taking social and distributional goals into consideration. A second relies on integrating distributional impact analysis directly into the budget process.

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Inequalities
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New Forms of Employment and Labour Protection in China

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 02/22/2024 - 09:56

ILO Working Paper 103(20.02.2024)  The objective of this paper is to provide a panoramic description and analysis of the diversity of the new forms of employment that have been emerging in China, with the focus on their background, the main types, the status quo of labour rights protection, and the government's responses to the challenges of labour regulations brought by NFE. Finally, on the basis of the above, the paper puts forward corresponding policy recommendations on how to improve workers' protection in new forms of Employment.

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china
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Extension of coverage
Digital plateform workers
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