El examen, desde un punto de vista jurídico, de los asuntos concernientes a la financiación de la seguridad social, no constituye por cierto una materia muy frecuentada. De allí la importancia que, en nuestra opinión, reviste el trabajo intelectual que se plasma en este libro. En él, el lector hallará puntos de vista actualizados y novedosos que, aunque circunscritos a menudo al examen de...

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We explore the time pattern of remittances using data on return migrants from the Mexican Migration Project. Some of these return migrants have settled in the U.S. and are returning to Mexico to visit family and friends, whereas others are temporary migrants returning home after a working spell in the U.S. We find that the dollar amount remitted first increases with time spent in the U.S. to...

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This paper reviews the determinants and conditionalities of the process of universalizing public health in developed countries, notably the European ones, and in Brazil, and is aimed at highlighting their differences. The first part discloses the main interpretations on the constructing of the Welfare State, emphasizing the characteristics of that historical moment and its articulation with...

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This article examines health sector reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss the ideological, theoretical, and conceptual elements that inform the reform agenda and the models put forward for attaining greater equity in the region’s countries. Its starting assumption is that the relevant literature generally neglects the economic, social, and political aspects underlying the...

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This paper describes the Chilean experience concerning the implementation of a new unemployment insurance (UI) program. The use of individual savings accounts and private management are essential elements. In addition, a redistributive fund (Common Fund) helps workers pool risks, distributing resources from employed to unemployed workers and from stable firms to workers with low incomes and...

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The 2006 Issue of the Report on Social Security in the Americas is divided in four chapters. The first two chapters address older-adult issues, the third chapter deals with disability-related problems, and the fourth chapter discusses Social Security agreements in the Americas. In the Presentation, it was pointed out that the objective of the Report on Social Security in the Americas is to become...

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The Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) and Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) co-hosted an international conference on “The Effects of Migration on Sending Countries” in February of 2006. The major objective of the conference was to examine a variety of channels through which migration affects the sending countries. Migrants change the dynamic of sending households; alter labor...

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In this paper, I use longitudinal data from the 1998 and 2001 Living Standard Measurement Surveys in Nicaragua to examine the impact of the emigration of household members on the household labor market integration and poverty. The main findings of the paper are that households from which an emigrant left had a reduction in members, a reduction in working members, a reduction in labor income than...

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The focus on short-term macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and wages, is insufficient to explain international migration. Institutional factors, bound to change only in the long run, can potentially have a large impact on migration flows. To illustrate this, we analyze Mexico-U.S. migration focusing on social security coverage, an important indicator of job formality. Using...

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We seek to further understand the factors that determine per emigrant remittances using data from 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries over the 1980-2003 period. We find that emigrants avoid remitting when the exchange rate is under pressure. This finding is consistent with the notion that remitters strive to reduce their exposure to exchange rate losses by taking into account the expected...

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This paper aims at analyzing healthcare expenditure and demand of families, by estimating income-elasticity and price-elasticity for ten groups of products using the so-called model Linear Almost Ideal Demand System (LAIDS). The 2002/03 consumer expenditure surveys (POF) of the Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística – FIBGE (Brazilian census bureau) are used, providing extremely...

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International migrants are persons who cross national borders and remain outside their countries of birth or citizenship for 12 months or more, regardless of the reason for being abroad or legal status while abroad. According to UN estimates, the number of international migrants was 191 million in 2005, and half were in the labor force of the destination country. International labor migration...

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Contenido: Módulo I. Reforma sectorial y economía de la salud / Sergio Horis del Prete. Tema 1. Economía y salud: viejas disputas, nuevas visiones. Tema 2 Protección social en salud y Economía sanitaria. Un punto de encuentro. Tema 3. Mercado laboral, informalidad y desprotección social. De la solidaridad de clase a la relación asimétrica entre trabajadores formales e informales. Módulo II....

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Contenido: ¿Cómo puedo consultar a los tutores del CIESS? ¿Qué se espera de mí como participante de un curso a distancia? ¿Qué actividades debo realizar y cómo se evaluará mi desempeño?

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Contenido: Módulo I. Contexto socioeconómico y político-ideológico de la seguridad social en el continente americano: una aproximación diacrónica y sincrónica / Raquel Abrantes Pégo. Tema 1. Categorías centrales para el análisis del origen, desarrollo y futuro de la seguridad social en los países del continente americano. Tema 2. La reestructuración de la economía capitalista, la reforma de los...

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Contenido: ¿En qué consiste y cómo debo usar mi material didáctico?. Planteamiento del curso a distancia experiencias y resultados de las reformas de los seguros sociales. Introducción. Objetivo general. Objetivos particulares. Perfil de egreso. Metodología. Coordinación del curso. Glosario.

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En materia de protección al envejeciente, la República Dominicana es signataria de diversos acuerdos internacionales, dentro de los cuales se incluyen el Plan de Acción Internacional sobre el Envejecimiento, del 1982, de la Resolución 4691 de las Naciones Unidas, donde se crean los Principios de las Naciones Unidas en Favor de las Personas de Edad, de la Resolución A/47/5, de la Asamblea General...

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Este programa recoge las sugerencias vertidas por el conjunto de las instituciones afiliadas a la CISS, a través de las respuestas que dieron a la Encuesta Académica que tradicionalmente lleva a cabo el CIESS para estos efectos. De igual forma, el programa toma en cuenta los resultados que se han obtenido de las tratativas con otros organismos internacionales, las sugerencias formuladas por la...

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The objective of this article is to put in economic perspective the expenditure in health within the pattern of family expenditure of the Mexican households. Information of the National Survey on Income Expenditure of Households (ENIGH) of Mexico of 2004 is analyzed on: structure of the expenditure of the households, expenditure in health and income-expenditure elasticities in health; by...

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This paper raises the point that only few health reforms implemented in Latin American countries modified the existing health systems in order to fix the problems brought by the institutional fragmentation typical of this sector. A great part of these reforms did not implemented the necessary measures to improve coordination among health systems in the prevailing pluralistic model and besides,...

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