Carlos Vidal-Meliá, Marta Regúlez-Castillo, Juan Manuel Pérez-Salamero González
{"title":"Income inequalities in longevity among Spanish retirement pensioners aged 65+: A comprehensive analysis from 2008 to 2021","authors":"Carlos Vidal-Meliá, Marta Regúlez-Castillo, Juan Manuel Pérez-Salamero González","doi":"10.1111/issr.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines disparities in longevity among Spanish retirement pensioners aged 65+, focusing on pension income and gender between 2008 and 2021. Using linked administrative records, we estimate life expectancy and complementary indicators (median, modal age at death, interquartile range). Results show persistent income-related gaps, especially for men, who face both shorter and less predictable lives, while female inequalities are smaller and tend to converge. Compared internationally, Spain displays distinctive narrowings for women but a widen-then-narrow pattern for men. Beyond documenting disparities, the article highlights how each longevity indicator offers distinct policy uses – for actuarial fairness, pension liabilities, and health and elderly care aimed at enhancing the well-being of disadvantaged groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"53-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial retirement planning processes in the Netherlands: How do they differ between employees and solo self-employed workers?","authors":"Camilla Marabini, Marleen Damman, Paulina Pankowska","doi":"10.1111/issr.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The solo self-employed workforce is growing across Europe, a group which often faces greater individual responsibility for retirement preparation than employees. Using a situational strength framework, this study investigates psychological mechanisms behind retirement planning among employees and three types of solo self-employed workers: voluntary, natural, and forced. Based on survey data from 3,450 Dutch workers aged 40–67, a multi-group structural equation model reveals that, compared to employees and other types of solo self-employed workers, future time perspective influences perceived retirement savings adequacy considerably more strongly among voluntary self-employed workers. These findings underscore the situational-contingent nature of retirement planning and highlight the vulnerability of certain self-employed groups in pension policy debates.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"3-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating social protection and occupational health services: A scoping review","authors":"Nathalie Both, Marietou Niang, Lou Tessier, Ana Catalina Ramirez, Aurore Iradukunda, Tatiana Agbadje, Gloria Ayivi-Vinz, Frédéric Bergeron, Dejan Loncar","doi":"10.1111/issr.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human health is shaped by physiological factors and by social, environmental, behavioural, and political conditions. Annually, occupational risks are a major contributor to a significant number of avoidable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years. Addressing such determinants requires action beyond the health sector, with increasing recognition of the value of multisectoral approaches to achieving health equity. Social protection and occupational health services systems both address these determinants of health and share a public health objective: preventing occupational injuries and diseases, supporting healthcare access, and facilitating rehabilitation. Among social protection schemes, social health protection plays a core role. This scoping review identifies documented linkages between social health protection and occupational health services in the global literature, highlighting both promising practices and coordination gaps between these two sub-systems. Strengthening these linkages through intersectoral policy and practice can reinforce both systems, particularly in the face of global crises such as climate change. To our knowledge, this is the first mapping of the published literature on this issue.</p><p>La santé humaine dépend de facteurs physiologiques et de déterminants sociaux, environnementaux, comportementaux et politiques. Chaque année, les risques professionnels jouent un rôle important dans un grand nombre de décès évitables et dans les années de vie corrigées de l’incapacité. Influer sur ces déterminants exige une action qui va au-delà du secteur de la santé, l’intérêt de recourir à des approches multisectorielles pour parvenir à l’équité sanitaire étant de plus en plus reconnu. Le système de protection sociale et le système de médecine du travail visent l’un et l’autre à agir sur ces déterminants de la santé et partagent un même objectif de santé publique, qui consiste à prévenir les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles, à permettre l’accès aux soins et à faciliter la réadaptation. La protection sociale de la santé joue un rôle central parmi les régimes de protection sociale. Cette étude exploratoire recense les liens entre protection sociale et médecine du travail qui ont été documentés dans la littérature internationale, mettant en lumière à la fois des pratiques prometteuses et des faiblesses dans la coordination de ces deux systèmes. Le renforcement de ces liens au moyen de politiques et pratiques intersectorielles pourrait consolider les deux systèmes, en particulier dans le contexte de crises mondiales telles que le changement climatique. Cette étude est, à notre connaissance, la première qui brosse un panorama des travaux consacrés à cette question.</p><p>La salud humana depende de factores fisiológicos y de determinantes sociales, ambientales, políticos y de comportamiento. Cada año, los riesgos profesionales desempeñan un papel importante en un número considerable de muertes evitables y en los añ","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"79-98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index for 2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/issr.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"121-124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early pension withdrawals and their uneven long-term effects in Peru","authors":"Javier Olivera, José A. Valderrama","doi":"10.1111/issr.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the potential impact of early pension withdrawals from Peru's individual retirement account system. Originally introduced as a policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of large withdrawals were allowed during and after the pandemic. We find that these policies can reduce expected pension wealth by about 40 per cent, but there are important heterogeneous effects. There is a socio-economic gradient in the distribution of pension fund losses, with individuals at the lower end of the income or savings distribution experiencing larger losses. Losses are also higher for men and older people, who have less time to rebuild their pension pots.</p><p>Cet article porte sur l’impact potentiel des retraits anticipés de l’épargne-retraite des comptes individuels au Pérou. La possibilité d’effectuer des retraits anticipés a initialement été introduite par les pouvoirs publics en réaction à la pandémie de COVID-19, et de nombreux retraits d’ampleur ont été autorisés pendant et après la crise sanitaire. Nous constatons que ce type de mesure peut réduire d’environ 40 pour cent la valeur du patrimoine retraite espéré, mais que l’hétérogénéité est forte. Nous observons un gradient socio-économique dans la répartition de ces pertes, celles-ci étant plus lourdes pour les personnes situées au bas de l’échelle du revenu ou de l’épargne. Les hommes et les seniors, qui ont moins de temps pour reconstituer leur épargne-retraite, sont également davantage pénalisés que les autres.</p><p>En este artículo se estudian las posibles repercusiones de los retiros anticipados de las cuentas individuales de capitalización en el Perú. Durante y después de la COVID-19, se permitió realizar numerosas retiradas de elevada cuantía, medidas que se adoptaron inicialmente para responder ante dicha situación de pandemia. Se considera que estas medidas pueden reducir el capital previsto de las pensiones en aproximadamente un 40 por ciento, si bien traen consigo importantes efectos de carácter heterogéneo. Se produce una desigualdad socioeconómica en la distribución de las pérdidas de los fondos de pensiones, que son mayores tanto en el caso de las personas con menos ingresos o ahorros, como en el caso de los hombres y las personas de edad avanzada, y además estas últimas disponen de menos tiempo para restablecer sus ahorros para la jubilación.</p><p>Dieser Artikel untersucht die möglichen Auswirkungen vorzeitiger Auszahlungen aus dem individuellen Rentenkontosystem Perus. Ursprünglich als politische Reaktion auf die COVID-19-Pandemie eingeführt, wurden während und nach der Pandemie eine Reihe größerer Entnahmen zugelassen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass diese Maßnahmen das erwartete Rentenvermögen um etwa 40 Prozent verringern können, wobei jedoch erhebliche heterogene Effekte bestehen. Es gibt ein sozioökonomisches Gefälle bei der Verteilung der Verluste in den Rentenfonds, wobei Personen am unteren Ende der Einkommens- oder Vermögensverteilung größere Verlu","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"31-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}