Andras Uthoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1371197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andras Uthoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andras |
| FAMILY NAME | Uthoff |
| SIGNATURE | UTHOFF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La reforma a la salud pendiente en Chile
Chile mantiene un sistema de salud segmentado por riesgos e ingresos. Una Comisión Presidencial encargada en 2014 planteó dos escenarios para el sistema de salud según el horizonte de tiempo en que se esperaban sus resultados. Para el largo plazo propuso una visión hacia dónde debiera dirigirse el sistema de salud chileno, conviniendo en un seguro público único. En lo inmediato, propuso una transición que consistía en regular a las instituciones …
The health insurance market
Health-care systems are highly diverse, sometimes even sharing few basic aspects of design. In developing countries, demographic profiles, poverty, the labour market and public finances are such that a comprehensive approach to solidarity —combining contributory and non-contributory mechanisms— is essential. In 1981, Chile redesigned the contributory component of its system by means of private health-insurance companies. The rationale of private,…
Poverty and employment in Latin America
What factors led to the reduction of poverty in Latin America from 1990 onwards? This article looks into the key factors that have played a part in reducing poverty in the region, including, in particular, employment and remuneration for work. With data from household surveys, the authors discuss the ways in which changes in the working age population, in its participation in economic activity, in employment rates and in income from work and othe…
Gaps in the welfare State and reforms to pension systems in Latin America
Pension systems in Latin America are organized as tripartite contributory schemes paid into by employers, employees and the State. Their coverage has always been segmented and very low because a significant percentage of the labour market is composed of subsistence sectors with low productivity and unstable, uncertain access to commercial and financial networks (associated with a lack of employment protections, low income levels and a high incide…
The Role of Insurance in Social Protection in Latin America
Social protection schemes in Latin America face serious short falls in the financial resources available to meet their needs. New types of insurance envisaged in reforms should help to contain costs and increase coverage. However, in strengthening schemes' coverage it is highly probable that considerable demand for additional financial resources will arise to address the need to introduce the principle of solidarity into the system. This article …
El papel del aseguramiento en la protección social
Los sistemas de protección social enfrentan serios descalces entre la necesidad y la disponibilidad de recursos financieros para cubrir las demandas. Por ello, tanto la contención de costos como la necesidad de aumentar la cobertura poblacional de los sistemas son elementos de cualquier propuesta de reforma. Para avanzar hacia la universalidad de los beneficios hay que fortalecer simultáneamente la eficiencia y la solidaridad. Una estrategia de r…
The role of insurance in social protection
Social protection systems have to cope with large discrepancies between the financing needed to cover demand and the resources actually available. For this reason, it is necessary for any reform proposal to include elements of cost restraint as well as measures to increase the population coverage of systems. Efficiency and solidarity must improve together if progress is to be made towards universality of benefits. Any reform strategy needs to con…
Labour markets and pension systems
Latin America is going through a simultaneous process of population ageing and growing predominance of precarious employment conditions which poses a challenge for contributory pension systems. The solvency of the basic pillars of the unfunded system is being affected by the longstanding decline in the number of active persons whose contributions finance the benefits of retirees. The benefits of the individually funded systems are sensitive to th…
Hacia una nueva seguridad social en el siglo XXI
In the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, social security systems have traditionally been almost exclusively the responsibility of the public sector. These systems have had major shortcomings, such as low coverage rates, unbalanced budgets, inadequate funding, and poor management of resources. In order to solve these problems and face the increased demands associated with demographic and epidemiological transitions, in the 1990s a numb…
Changes in earnings inequality and labour market segmentation
Changes in earnings inequality are examined in this article through an eclectic approach allowing for differences in human capital earnings function by labour market segments. Several findings are of interest. The first are the components of earnings inequality changes, these being, in order of importance: changes in the within segments inequality, changes in the relative share of the informal sector segment, and changes in relative income betwee…
Women's Participation in Economic Activity as a Strategic Factor of Change in Fertility
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on labour force participation of the woman worker as a strategic factor in fertility in Mexico and Costa Rica - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables
The role of insurance in social protection
Social protection systems have to cope with large discrepancies between the financing needed to cover demand and the resources actually available. For this reason, it is necessary for any reform proposal to include elements of cost restraint as well as measures to increase the population coverage of systems. Efficiency and solidarity must improve together if progress is to be made towards universality of benefits. Any reform strategy needs to con…
The Role of Insurance in Social Protection in Latin America
Social protection schemes in Latin America face serious short falls in the financial resources available to meet their needs. New types of insurance envisaged in reforms should help to contain costs and increase coverage. However, in strengthening schemes' coverage it is highly probable that considerable demand for additional financial resources will arise to address the need to introduce the principle of solidarity into the system. This article …
Labour markets and pension systems
Latin America is going through a simultaneous process of population ageing and growing predominance of precarious employment conditions which poses a challenge for contributory pension systems. The solvency of the basic pillars of the unfunded system is being affected by the longstanding decline in the number of active persons whose contributions finance the benefits of retirees. The benefits of the individually funded systems are sensitive to th…
Women's Participation in Economic Activity as a Strategic Factor of Change in Fertility
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on labour force participation of the woman worker as a strategic factor in fertility in Mexico and Costa Rica - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables
Changes in earnings inequality and labour market segmentation
Changes in earnings inequality are examined in this article through an eclectic approach allowing for differences in human capital earnings function by labour market segments. Several findings are of interest. The first are the components of earnings inequality changes, these being, in order of importance: changes in the within segments inequality, changes in the relative share of the informal sector segment, and changes in relative income betwee…
Hacia una nueva seguridad social en el siglo XXI
In the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, social security systems have traditionally been almost exclusively the responsibility of the public sector. These systems have had major shortcomings, such as low coverage rates, unbalanced budgets, inadequate funding, and poor management of resources. In order to solve these problems and face the increased demands associated with demographic and epidemiological transitions, in the 1990s a numb…
Labour markets and pension systems
Latin America is going through a simultaneous process of population ageing and growing predominance of precarious employment conditions which poses a challenge for contributory pension systems. The solvency of the basic pillars of the unfunded system is being affected by the longstanding decline in the number of active persons whose contributions finance the benefits of retirees. The benefits of the individually funded systems are sensitive to th…
The role of insurance in social protection
Social protection systems have to cope with large discrepancies between the financing needed to cover demand and the resources actually available. For this reason, it is necessary for any reform proposal to include elements of cost restraint as well as measures to increase the population coverage of systems. Efficiency and solidarity must improve together if progress is to be made towards universality of benefits. Any reform strategy needs to con…
El papel del aseguramiento en la protección social
Los sistemas de protección social enfrentan serios descalces entre la necesidad y la disponibilidad de recursos financieros para cubrir las demandas. Por ello, tanto la contención de costos como la necesidad de aumentar la cobertura poblacional de los sistemas son elementos de cualquier propuesta de reforma. Para avanzar hacia la universalidad de los beneficios hay que fortalecer simultáneamente la eficiencia y la solidaridad. Una estrategia de r…
The Role of Insurance in Social Protection in Latin America
Social protection schemes in Latin America face serious short falls in the financial resources available to meet their needs. New types of insurance envisaged in reforms should help to contain costs and increase coverage. However, in strengthening schemes' coverage it is highly probable that considerable demand for additional financial resources will arise to address the need to introduce the principle of solidarity into the system. This article …
Gaps in the welfare State and reforms to pension systems in Latin America
Pension systems in Latin America are organized as tripartite contributory schemes paid into by employers, employees and the State. Their coverage has always been segmented and very low because a significant percentage of the labour market is composed of subsistence sectors with low productivity and unstable, uncertain access to commercial and financial networks (associated with a lack of employment protections, low income levels and a high incide…
Poverty and employment in Latin America
What factors led to the reduction of poverty in Latin America from 1990 onwards? This article looks into the key factors that have played a part in reducing poverty in the region, including, in particular, employment and remuneration for work. With data from household surveys, the authors discuss the ways in which changes in the working age population, in its participation in economic activity, in employment rates and in income from work and othe…
The health insurance market
Health-care systems are highly diverse, sometimes even sharing few basic aspects of design. In developing countries, demographic profiles, poverty, the labour market and public finances are such that a comprehensive approach to solidarity —combining contributory and non-contributory mechanisms— is essential. In 1981, Chile redesigned the contributory component of its system by means of private health-insurance companies. The rationale of private,…
La reforma a la salud pendiente en Chile
Chile mantiene un sistema de salud segmentado por riesgos e ingresos. Una Comisión Presidencial encargada en 2014 planteó dos escenarios para el sistema de salud según el horizonte de tiempo en que se esperaban sus resultados. Para el largo plazo propuso una visión hacia dónde debiera dirigirse el sistema de salud chileno, conviniendo en un seguro público único. En lo inmediato, propuso una transición que consistía en regular a las instituciones …
Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Business (4 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Population (4 works)