Portability of Social Benefits: Research on a Critical Topic in Globalization

Holzmann, Robert; Werding, Martin

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“…The working definition of portability used herein is: "Portability is defined as the ability to preserve, maintain, and transfer social insurance rights vested or on disbursement, independent of nationality and country of residence." To offer a conceptual background around this definition and the issues presented in the later sections, this section briefly discusses six conceptual domains (drawing on Holzmann andHolzmann et al 2005):…”

Section: Conceptual Considerations On the International Portability Omentioning

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“…To assess whether portability arrangements succeed in delivering on fairness and efficiency considerations, three broad results criteria have been suggested (Holzmann et al 2005; and are used in this paper:…”

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“…The paper thus fills an important institutional knowledge gap in the policy discourse of international labor mobility. While the portability of social security has received increasing attention over the last decade-starting essentially with Holzmann et al (2005) and including a recent review of literature (Taha et al 2015)-no attempt has been made to date to explore the functioning of its claimed key institution: BSSAs. Do BSSAs really deliver on what is expected and what are the key areas of concern and improvement?…”

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“…To the author's knowledge, no other qualitative study even less so any quantitative analysis has ever been undertaken and published to explore the functioning of BSSAs, to highlight the strengths and weakness of their operation, or to evaluate them against predefined criteria 8 ; this assessment resonates with a recent review of literature (Taha et al 2015). A very first and incomplete attempt in this direction was undertaken by Holzmann et al (2005) based on information gathered for a few migration corridors. While incomplete, the study showed the potential power of corridor studies.…”

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Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU member states

Holzmann

2016

IZA J Labor Stud

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This policy paper summarizes four corridor studies on bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) between four European Union (EU) member and two nonmember states, draws conclusions on their results, and offers recommendations. BSSAs between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries are seen as the most important instrument to establish portability of social security benefits for internationally mobile workers. Yet, only about 23 % of international migrants profit from BSSAs and their functioning has been little analyzed and even less assessed. The four corridors studied (Austria-Turkey, Germany-Turkey, Belgium-Morocco, and France-Morocco) were selected to allow for comparison of both similarities and differences in experiences. The evaluation of these corridors' BSSAs was undertaken against a methodological framework and three selected criteria: fairness for individuals, fiscal fairness for countries, and bureaucratic effectiveness for countries and migrant workers. The results suggest that the investigated BSSAs work and overall deliver reasonably well on individual fairness. The results on fiscal fairness are clouded by conceptual and empirical gaps. Bureaucratic effectiveness would profit from information and communication technology-based exchanges on both corridors once available. JEL Classification: D69, H55, I19, J62

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Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU member states

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“…The issue of portability, in particular, is increasingly important because “the absence of or limitations on the portability of benefits thus go against the basic objectives of social policy and may also violate affected individuals’ social and human rights” (Holzmann and Werding, , p. 336; see also Sutherland, , para. 64).…”

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Global–regional interaction to extend access to social protection for migrant workers: Insights from ASEAN and MERCOSUR

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2017

Int Social Security Review

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Universal access to social protection for migrant workers is emerging as a problematic issue in the implementation of free movement regimes at a regional level. This article focuses on the concept of regional governance as a possible mechanism to address the unsolved challenges of social security regimes to extend coverage. To this end, the article looks at current legal developments in two regional projects (ASEAN and MERCOSUR) to identify a creative approach to strengthen the development of national floors of social protection. The interest of using these case studies lies in exploring whether the regional integration process can play a major role in the progressive extension of social protection rights to migrant workers by facilitating the adoption of social security agreements.

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Portability of Social Benefits: Research on a Critical Topic in Globalization

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU member states

Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU member states

Global–regional interaction to extend access to social protection for migrant workers: Insights from ASEAN and MERCOSUR

Testing the Social Cost of Rapid Economic Development in Malaysia: The Effect of Trade on Life Expectancy

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