Author: Alain de CrombrugghePublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Wage and Pension Pressure on the Polish Budget
Author: Alain de CrombrugghePublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Wage and Pension Pressure on the Polish Budget
Author: Alain de CrombrugghePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Poland's current economic recovery should create jobs, not raise wages. Ensuring equitable opportunities for all requires moderating the income claims of the best - protected groups - reforming the pension system.After Poland's remarkable stabilization and liberalization in 1990, the economy faced three related problems: high wage and pension claims, a rising number of pensioners and unemployed workers, and a budget crisis, especially in 1991 and 1992. De Crombrugghe studies the role that wage and pension pressures played in this crisis. He also explains the persistence of the high tax wedge that later helped overcome the budget crisis.The positive effect on revenues of higher wages and higher tax rates could not compensate for both the inevitable loss in profit taxes and the excessive growth of spending on replacement income.Counterfactuals constructed for revenue and spending show the rising number of social benefit earners (pensions, unemployment) to be responsible for much of the budgetary burden. But they also show that the better protection of social income (over other income) explains part of the burden.Part of the employment loss and social spending can be ascribed to the excessive wage recovery of late 1990 and 1991. Insiders set wages ignoring the unemployed and exploiting the pension system in a context of uncertainty about profits and productivity, at a time when there was strong popular support for the protection of replacement income.De Crombrugghe recommends pension reform and caution about wages: the current economic recovery should create jobs, not raise wages, he says, and ensuring equitable opportunities for all requires moderating the income claims of the best-protected groups.This paper - a joint product of the Office of the Senior Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist, and Research Advisory Staff - is part of Fiscal Reform in Poland (RPO 678-96), a study funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget.
Pension Reform and the Development of Pension Systems
Author: Emily S. AndrewsPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821365525
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Formal pension systems are an important means of reducing poverty among the aged. In recent years, however, pension reform has become a pressing matter, as demographic aging, poor administration, early retirement, and unaffordable benefits have strained pension balances and overall public finances. Pension systems have become a source of macroeconomic instability, a constraint to economic growth, and an ineffective and/or inequitable provider of retirement income."
OECD Economic Surveys: Poland 1998
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926415146X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This 1998 edition of OECD's periodic review of Poland's economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects. It also includes special features on privatisation and management in public enterprises, pension reform, and implementing the OECD Jobs Strategy.
Unemployment in Transition
Author: Janice BellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134436262
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The emergence of open unemployment is an unavoidable consequence of postcommunist transition. Some countries-notably in the former Soviet Union-initially slowed economic contraction. But in the longer run slower reformers have generally sustained deeper and more prolonged recessions than faster reforming central European countries. Moreover, the initially low unemployment rates in the former Soviet Union are now rising, and may stabilise at higher post-transition equilibrium rates than in Central Europe.
An International Statistical Survey of Government Employment and Wages
Author: Salvatore Schiavo-CampoPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Central-Eastern Europe
Author: Frank BönkerPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781958261
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
'Frank Bönker has done a masterful job. . . This is probably the best book available on this important subject. and its significance is not limited to studies of postcommunist societies. It has important theoretical implications for everyone interested in the Political Economy of Policy Reform perspective within the field of comparative political economy.' - John L. Campbell, Slavic Review
An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics, with an Application to Poverty Dynamics Among American Women
Author: Simon M. BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Left Parties And Social Policy In Postcommunist Europe
Author: Linda J CookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000753042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book attempts to explain why, and to evaluate what the return of the left has meant for the social policy of the states they have helped govern. It focuses on the East-Central European countries of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, significantly Russia.
Fiscal Adjustments in Transition Economies
Author: Barbara FakinPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Ajuste estructural
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description