TY - BOOK AU - Cox-Edwards,Alejandra AU - James,Estelle AU - Wong,Rebeca ED - Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social ED - Universidad Iberoamericana. Ciudad de México TI - The gender impact of social security reform in Latin America SN - 1870-2961 U1 - REV WSP No.1 PY - 2005/// CY - México PB - CISS, UI KW - Seguridad social KW - Publicaciones periódicas KW - México KW - Mercado de trabajo KW - América Latina KW - Equidad de género N1 - Título en español: El impacto de género de la reforma a la seguridad social en América N2 - Recent multi-pillar pension reforms tighten the link between payroll contributions and benefits, leading critics to argue that they will hurt women, who have less continuous employment and earn lower wages than men. However, these reforms also remove distortions and target redistributions to low earners, which help women. This paper tests these conflicting claims in the case of three Latin American countries-Chile, Argentina and Mexico. We find that women’s own-annuities are lower than those of men in multi-pillar pension schemes, but women are recipients of net public transfers and private intra-household transfers through joint pensions. As a result, women have gained more than men from the reforms UR - http://162.222.203.113/Analiticas/ADISS2016-336.pdf ER -