Documents et rapports

Expanding Coverage in Vietnam’s Voluntary Social Insurance Scheme : Insights and Recommendations (anglais)

Vietnam has witnessed impressive economic growth in recent decades, but it continues to have a large share of its workers in the informal sector. The lack of a labor contract for workers in the informal...

De Jure and De Facto Coverage of Parental Benefits in Nepal (anglais)

Women constitute nearly half of the young working age-population in Nepal but are less likely than men to participate in the labor force. When employed, they work largely in informal, or subsistence work...

Social Insurance Expenditure (anglais)

Adequacy Pensions and Access to Healthcare : Maintaining Human Capital During Old Age (Chapter 14) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (anglais)

Maintaining human capital during old age requires both an adequate pension (cash component) as well as access to affordable quality healthcare (healthcare component). Lack of universal/affordable healthcare...

Mongolia Jobs Diagnostic : More Vibrant and Inclusive - Labor Markets for Economic Recovery and DiversificationBackground Paper: Active Labor Market Programs, Social Protection, and Training in Mongolia (anglais)

This paper analyzes Mongolia's active labor market policies, social insurance system, and vocational training programs, focusing on their support for vulnerable groups. Drawing on desk research and stakeholder...

Informal Employment in Malaysia: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Reform (anglais)

This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...

Informal Employment and Experiences of Vulnerability (anglais)

This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...

Who Are the Informally Employed in Malaysia? (anglais)

This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...

Social Insurance for Gig Workers : Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Malaysia (anglais)

The rise of “gig” or digital platform work globally has led to both enthusiasm for its potential to create lucrative employment for large numbers of people, as well as concern about its implications for...

Working Without Borders - The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work : Chapter 6 - Social Protection for Online Gig Workers (anglais)

This chapter investigates challenges to extending social protections (including social assistance and social insurance [SI]) to gig workers and especially examines the issue in the context of developing...

The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss (anglais)

Disability benefits provide social insurance against the risk of losing working capacity, as well as an important source of income for individuals with disabilities. They are also costly and tend to reduce...

Social Protection Program Spending and Household Welfare in Ghana (anglais)

: Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One, pensions provided by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, has a long history, but the rest of the programs have been introduced...

Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits (anglais)

In most disability insurance programs, beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity...

Social Insurance Administration Diagnostic (anglais)

Mandatory social insurance (SI) programs manage large volumes of data and significant amounts of money. SI administration can be inefficient and expensive, leading to negative outcomes for people. SI Administration...

Is Social Protection a Luxury Good ? (anglais)

The claim that social protection is a luxury good—with a national income elasticity exceeding unity—has been influential. The paper tests the “luxury good hypothesis” using newly-assembled data on social...

Protect Incomes or Protect Jobs ? The Role of Social Policies in Post-Pandemic Recovery (anglais)

This paper examines the effectiveness of income protection and job protection policies for the post-pandemic economic recovery of the second half of 2020 through 2021. The paper is based on a new data...

Pilot Spending Review on Pensions for Workers in Arduous and Hazardous Jobs : Output 6 (anglais)

Since 2000, Bulgaria has introduced a three-pillar pension system: (i) public state social insurance - the 1st pillar; (ii) supplementary mandatory pension insurance - the 2nd pillar; and (iii) supplementary...

Indonesia - Human Capital Development Policy Loan (anglais)

Official Documents- Reimbursable Advisory Services Agreement with the Ministry of Finance Ref. P177723, Romania (anglais)

Official Documents- Reimbursable Advisory Services Agreement with Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity of Romania Ref. P178551 (anglais)