"The financial crisis drew attention to the way in which workers in certain countries had been able to sustain consumption through housing and consumer credit despite insecure labour-market positions. This indicates a need to expand the analysis of the relationship between flexibility and...

Der Umfang der sozialen Sicherung wird für Deutschland stark vereinfacht durch die Sozialleistungsquote beschrieben. Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Reformdiskussion ist die amtliche Berichterstattung aber nur sehr bedingt aussagefähig: Zum einen wurden die Daten nur verspätet und in...

Im Gefolge der Finanzmarkt- und Wirtschaftskrise hat sich in den USA die Arbeitsmarktlage in einem Ausmaß verschlechtert, das im amerikanischen Sozialsystem wegen der stärkeren Eigenverantwortung nicht vorgesehen ist. Um die krisenbedingten Einkommenslücken zu verringern, hat der Kongress im...

The financial crisis drew attention to the way in which workers in certain countries had been able to sustain consumption through housing and consumer credit despite insecure labour-market positions. This indicates a need to expand the analysis of the relationship between flexibility and...

In combating poverty, whether or not to design a universal program or a targeted program has been a perpetual dilemma. The objective of this paper is to conduct an international comparison of the 'universality' and 'targeting' of social security systems. The paper presents an outline of...

This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....

The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is structured as follows: Introduction, then follows Chapter 2,...

The paper discusses possible directions and magnitudes of the relationship between the social security driven tax wedge, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional background for development of the current size...

Long-term care (LTC) in the new EU member states, which used to belong to the former socialist countries, is not yet a legally separated sector of social security. However, the ageing dynamics are more intensive in these states than in the old EU member states. This paper analyses the process of...