Tag: poverty risk
Abstract The objective of this working paper is to review the literature on informal and non-standard employment and to highlight the increased awareness of the global society about trends in labor markets and their implications for workers and social protection policy. This paper presents information on developing, emerging, and advanced economies, especially the United States…
The brief’s key findings are: As life expectancy rises, more retirees face the higher poverty risk associated with very old ages due to declining resources, cumulative inflation, and widowhood. In response, some propose boosting Social Security for the oldest old by either: adopting an annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for all retirees that more closely matches t…
