Este estudio actualiza y amplía un estudio previo sobre la equidad en la utilización de médico para un subconjunto de los países analizados (Van Doorslaer, Koolman y Puffer, 2002). En él se actualiza resultados de 2000 para 13 países y agrega nuevos resultados de ocho países: Australia, Finlandia, Francia, Hungría, México, Noruega, Suiza y Suecia. Se utilizaron tanto las distribuciones de...

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Durante el mes de mayo del año 2009 se realizó en Republica Dominicana, en la ciudad de La Romana, la reunión anual de la Asociación Internacional de Organismos de Supervisión de Fondos de Pensiones y el Seminario Internacional "Sistemas de Capitalización Individual, Tendencias y Perspectivas", organizado de manera conjunta entre AIOS y la Superintendencia de Pensiones (SIPEN). A este...

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Underfunded pension funds are in the same position as other creditors when their sponsoring firm becomes insolvent, having to join the queue claiming the remaining assets of the firm. Arguments for granting pension fund priority rights over other creditors are the same as for introducing pension benefit guarantee schemes – i.e. market failure and diversification. Arguments against such a priority...

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This paper provides a description of the risk-sharing features of pension plan design in selected OECD and non-OECD countries and how they correspond with the funding rules applied to pension funds. In addition to leading to a better understanding of differences in funding rules across countries with developed pension fund systems, the study considers the trend towards risk-based regulation. While...

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Three essential goals of pension plan funding are the long-term viability, stability and security of member benefits. Reform of funding regulations for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes to make them more counter-cyclical in nature can help achieve these goals as well as make DB schemes more attractive to plan sponsors that are increasingly moving away from DB towards defined contribution plans....

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Considering the growing role of private and funded pension provision and the sensitivity of private pension provision to the economic climate, there is an increasing need of comparable and reliable information on private pension plans in order to better monitor retirement income adequacy and the role of private provision in retirement income. Key indicators of the extent to which private pension...

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Savings and investments by individuals are important both for personal financial well-being and for economic growth. Many governments try to encourage their citizens to save more, or to save more appropriately, by preferring formal institutions to informal saving and by promoting more diversification. However, there are considerable barriers to saving, including limited access to financial markets...

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This report reviews recent as well as planned changes to accounting and solvency regulations affecting insurers and pension funds and how they may impact long-term investing by these institutions. The review of existing evidence focuses mainly on the impact of risk-based solvency requirements, identifying instances where such regulations may have driven changes in investment strategies and...

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This paper investigates policyholder protection schemes in OECD member countries and selected non-OECD countries. It is selective in its scope: it examines the rationale for a policyholder protection scheme; the relationship between certain design features and moral hazard; the role of a policyholder protection scheme within the overall resolution framework; and some cross-border features of these...

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Informe de actividades de la Asociación Internacional de Seguridad Social, efectuadas en los años 2015 y 2016.

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