The Americas Social Security Report celebrates 10 years – Fairness, Work, Retirement, and Social Protection 2012

Following with the summary of 10 years of Americas Social Security Reports, this note will discuss the Americas Social Security Report 2012 – Fairness, Work, Retirement, and Social Protection. The Report contributes to the debate over how regulations on work and retirement should be reformed, and how social security should evolve so as to make retirement a benefit and not a costly event. The Report provides statistics about main variables that characterize labor markets across the lifecycle,  summarizes the main hypothesis provided by the social sciences on the phenomenon of retirement age, and provides a detailed compilation of information and a significant actuarial analysis to obtain simple measurements of pension retirement benefits that can be compared between systems.