TY - BOOK ID - 134995163 TI - Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits : Facts, Concepts, Issues. AU - Holzmann, Robert. AU - Koettl, Johannes. PY - 2011 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Advocacy KW - Arbitrage KW - Benefit Formula KW - Bonds KW - Cash Transfers KW - Child Care KW - Collateral KW - Contribution Rates KW - Debt KW - Debt Markets KW - Discrimination KW - Expenditures KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Gender KW - Globalization KW - Health Monitoring & Evaluation KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Host Countries KW - Human Rights KW - Immigration KW - Informal Sector KW - Legal Framework KW - Legislation KW - Long-Term Care KW - Low-Income Countries KW - Migrant Workers KW - Migration KW - Morbidity KW - Mortality KW - Pensions & Retirement Systems KW - Property Rights KW - Purchasing Power KW - Remittances KW - Respect KW - Retirement KW - Retirement Income KW - Risk Management KW - Social Insurance KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Unemployment KW - Workers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134995163 AB - Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with consequences for economic and social outcomes. The paper gives a fresh and provocative look on the international perspective of the topic that has so far been dominated by social policy lawyers working within the framework of bilateral agreements; the input by economists has been very limited. It offers an analytical framework for portability analysis that suggests separating the risk pooling, (implicit or actual) pre-funding and redistributive elements in the benefit design and explores the proposed alternative approach for pensions and health care benefits. This promising approach may serve both as a substitute and complement to bi- and multilateral agreements. ER -