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Robert Holzmann, professor of economics, returned in March 2011 to Austria after a distinguished career in international organizations and academia. He now directs the RH Institute for Economic Policy Analyses (Vienna), holds the chair of Old Age Financial Protection at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), serves as Senior Advisor (consultant) to the World Bank, and teaches and researches internationally. Before his return he was the Research Director of the Labor Mobility Program (Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration) and Senior Advisor of the Financial Literacy & Education Program (Russia Trust Fund) of the World Bank. From May 1997 to end-June 2009 he was Sector Director and Head of the Social Protection & Labor Department leading, inter alia, the strategic and conceptual work on pensions and labor at the World Bank. Before joining the Bank he was professor of economics and the director to the European Institute at the University of Saarland, Germany (1992-97), and before professor of economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. He was also Visiting Professor at various universities in Japan, Chile and Austria, and lectured at Harvard University (USA) and Oxford University (UK). As principal administrator at the OECD (1985-87), he wrote a comprehensive report on public pension reform in industrialized countries. As senior economist at the IMF (1988-1990), he was heavily involved in fiscal and social security issues during the initial transition from plan to market in Central and Eastern Europe. His research and operational involvement extends to all regions of the world, and he has published 32 books and over 150 articles on social, fiscal and financial policy issues. He travelled to over 80 countries.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2003 and created with Klaus Zimmermann the Programm on "Employment and Development" for which he now serves as Chair of the Scientific Committee. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
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Robert Holzmann
Yann Pouget
Milan Vodopivec
Michael Weber
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Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms
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Robert Holzmann
Johannes Koettl
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Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues
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Robert Holzmann
Alain Jousten
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Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing
(forthcoming in : Edward Palmer, Robert Holzmann and David Robalino, Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Systems: Progress and New Frontiers in a Changing Pension World, World Bank) |
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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
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Demographic Alternatives for Aging Industrial Countries: Increased Total Fertility Rate, Labor Force Participation, or Immigration
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IZA Policy Papers:
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Robert Holzmann
Yann Pouget
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Towards an Objective-Driven System of Smart Labor Migration Management
(published in: World Bank - Economic Premise, 2010, 42, 1-5 ) |
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