low earner

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Recent reforms to maternity allowances have equally credited in low earners (albeit with different rules).
Targeting toward low earners may therefore reward low labor force participation.
Women tend to be low earners, hence beneficiaries of targeting in the new public pillars.
While low earners receive a relatively high subsidy due to the flat-rate subsidy, higher earners benefit additionally from the tax deductions.
To keep retirees above the poverty line, this is substantially supplemented by means-tested benefits that are targeted at low earners.
The proportion of base varied negatively with wages, ranging from 13 % for high earners to 80 % for low earners.
We also use survey data to show that low earners are the least willing to tolerate such risk.
Low earners of both genders benefit disproportionately from targeted redistributions in all three countries.
Further, as we have seen, the new public pillars are tilted toward low earners, who are predominantly women.
Compared with the 22% differential between net and gross replacement rates at average earnings, the difference for low earners is just 17 % on average.
The countries with the lowest replacement rates for low earners are those with the lowest first-tier pensions.
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