The Privatisation of Social Insurance and its Effect on Social Integration

Katrougalos, George

doi:10.1177/138826270700900105

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“…During the last thirty years, a clear trend in devolution of responsibility for social protection from the state to the private sector can be observed (Abramovitz 1986;Diller 2002;Gilbert 2004;Johnson 1995;Kamerman and Kahn, 1989;Katrougalos 2007;Müller, 2006;Orenstein, 2008). Private funds amounted to 44 per cent of current world GDP in 2004 (Tausch 2004) -compared to the 39 per cent in 1996 -and to 25 per cent of the EU's GDP (Council of the EU 2003).…”

Section: Mixed Governance and The Allocation Of Responsibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Security Administration Confronting Sustainability Challenges the Greek Pension System from a Comparative Perspective

Galazoulas¹,

Tsetoura²

2014

European Journal of Social Security

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This paper explores sustainability in social security, placing a particular emphasis on pension funds. The article starts by presenting various elements involved in a pension scheme. After defining the problem regarding the fiscal challenges with which pensions are confronted, both at international and at EU level, the research concentrates on tracking down the mix of instruments underlying a pension scheme which is best able to deal with the imbalances within it. Such imbalances have become very intensive since the economic crisis of 2008. A potential classification of pension schemes is provided, and the ways in which the public and private sectors may interact within the identified categories are outlined. The main focus of our analysis is on the management and asset allocation of pension funds, and comparisons are made between different practices in order to identify which are most suitable for ensuring sustainability. Finally, Greece is placed under the microscope, and the parameters affecting the administration of its pension system are examined from both an economic and a legal perspective.

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Section: Mixed Governance and The Allocation Of Responsibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Security Administration Confronting Sustainability Challenges the Greek Pension System from a Comparative Perspective

Galazoulas¹,

Tsetoura²

2014

European Journal of Social Security

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“…It also analyzes how stakeholders – whose support is crucial for the EGD's success, as claimed by the European Commission – react to the Green Deal. Theoretically, we argue that the EGD poses new challenges to the EU's existing social model, and that the EU's productive social policy approach – which focuses on active labour-market policies oriented towards human capital (Bernhard, 2010; Katrougalos, 2007) – may struggle to address the redistributive conflicts that will arise during a ‘green transition’. Possibly, the conflict-mitigating functions of protective social policy (i.e.…”

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Mapping the social dimension of the European Green Deal

Zimmermann,

Gengnagel

2023

European Journal of Social Security

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The European Green Deal calls for various economic reforms that will deeply disrupt the social order of European societies. As the European Commission makes very clear in its communications on the EGD, societal support for the profound changes that will inevitably accompany a ‘green transition’ hinges on social inclusion of stakeholders and social groups. This article aims to identify the social policy instruments proposed by the EGD to address the social implications of its ‘green transition’, and to explore how they relate to societal expectations. Analytically, it distinguishes between protective (redistributive) and productive (economy-oriented) social policy and argues that democratic social inclusion – which the European Commission strives to achieve – requires protective social policy. Empirically, the paper analyzes a) the socio-political instruments set out in the EGD and b) public statements made by a range of European-level actors who participated in the debates on the EGD. Our findings show that productive social policy prevails in the EGD's proposed instruments and in stakeholders’ demands, but that there are also vague indications of a more nuanced concept of social inclusion that acknowledges social conflict.

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“…Some scholars have further dissected the key causal factors of low utilization of public health services among migrant peasant workers in terms of health policy formulation and implementation and individual characteristic factors [22][23][24][25]. Studies on factors influencing the social integration of migrant peasant workers have mainly included household registration division [26,27], human capital characteristics [28], housing [29][30][31], and social security [32][33][34]. In terms of individual characteristics of the target population, individual characteristics such as gender, age, education level [35], household income [36], employment status [37], and mobility range [38] of migrant peasant workers also have potential impacts on their utilization of basic public health services.…”

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The Impact of Basic Public Health Services on Migrant Peasant Workers’ Urban Integration: Evidence from China

Yang

Gao

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The key to promoting urbanization in China is to achieve urban integration of migrant peasant workers, and basic public health services may have a potential social impact on the subjective welfare of migrant peasant workers. In this paper, we use data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) to study the impact of basic public health services on the urban integration of migrant peasant workers. The results show that basic public health services can significantly improve the probability of migrant peasant workers’ urban integration. The conclusions remain robust after mitigating potential endogeneity issues using the propensity score matching method (PSM), the CMP method, and robustness testing by replacing the explanatory variables with the reduced tail treatment. Further research found that the impact of basic public health services on migrant peasant workers’ urban integration is heterogeneous. The urban integration effect of basic public health services is more significant in male, high school and above, migrant peasant workers’ groups. The urban integration effect of basic public health services gradually increases with upgrading of the urban grade at the second-tier city and higher urban levels, and it also plays a vital role in the urban integration of the migrant peasant workers at the third-tier city and lower urban levels. Our findings also provide an evidence-based policy for China to promote equalizing basic public health services and a path to the urbanization of migrant peasant workers.

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The Privatisation of Social Insurance and its Effect on Social Integration

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Social Security Administration Confronting Sustainability Challenges the Greek Pension System from a Comparative Perspective

Social Security Administration Confronting Sustainability Challenges the Greek Pension System from a Comparative Perspective

Mapping the social dimension of the European Green Deal

The Impact of Basic Public Health Services on Migrant Peasant Workers’ Urban Integration: Evidence from China

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