Active and passive labour market policies in Austria and Hungary

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Risak ◽  
Erika Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Unemployed

This article analyses the benefits/assistance and activation initiatives for the unemployed provided by Austria and Hungary, highlighting recent changes and trends in the regulation. These two European states, which represent the Continental and the Eastern European systems, differ significantly in their history and approaches: Austria’s labour market and social security system remained quite stable in recent decades but underwent some changes that reflect a stricter and more activating approach. Hungary, on the other hand, is a post-socialist state that only had to establish an unemployment system in the 1990s and which recently limited the benefits and increased activation.

scholarly journals The Law Enforcement Of The Employees Social Security System In Indonesia: A Game Theory Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Randy Amsyari ◽  
Fajrin Satria Dwi Kesumah
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Nash Equilibrium ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subgame Perfection ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government

Insurance for the workers means a guarantee of safety for their works on the workplaces. It is necessarily crucial as workers need such a policy that can protect them from the loss. Indonesian government declare a policy that enact the act about National Social Security System (SJSN). The companies are the subject of this regulation, despite the fact at the initial implementation of this law enforcement brought to the pros and cons. Hence, the regulation also regulates for those who betray the policy will have to pay some certain amount of fine which in turn can harden them. The companies on the other side have a choice either to register or not their workers to SJSN as they still consider the premium they have to pay. This study aims to analyze the payoffs for both government and companies to be better off from the law enforcement. Game theory perspective is applied for the methodology of the study, particularly Subgame Perfection Nash Equilibrium (SPNE) and Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE). The results present that in condition of an effective law enforcement at p, the firms will be beneficial from the SJSN policy by registering their workers and pay the premium, because if they do not pay the premium they have to pay additional amount of fine. On the other hand, if the policy is not effective with 1-p, the firms will have an advantage by not registering their employees to the SJSN as the law enforcement is not effective. Also, the government does not necessarily conduct an investigation as the cost is higher than the return that they will get.

Radio and Television: Media Preference for Information Utilization among Select Retiring Members of Social Security System

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercylene P. Monteroso
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communication Plan ◽  
The Media ◽  
Science Media ◽  
Media Preference

Social Security System (SSS), Philippines is mandated by law to providemeaningful protection to members and their families against contingenciesresulting in loss of income or financial burden, and to contribute to the socioeconomicdevelopmentof the country,througha viable social insuranceprogram(Section2, RA 8282). Inthis way,SSS needs to establish and optimizeitsexisting strategic communication plan. Hence,this study was conductedtodeterminethemostpreferredmediumofcommunicationforretiringSSSmemberswhen transacting business and accessing to information regardingSSSupdatesand programs.The study used descriptivedesign. Surveyquestionnairewasutilizedin gathering the data. Among the communication media thatSSSused in disseminating information, radio and television arethe mostpreferredcommunicationmediaamongtheretiringSSSmembers.Thesamewerethecommunicationmediathroughwhichtheretiringmembersaccessedinformation.Puttingthe findings together,the study concludes that accessibilityandaffordabilityof media on the partof the media consumers matter in theirchoiceof utilizing information. Itis recommendedthat SSS Cagayan de Oro Branch should primarily use radio and television for most of its efforts indisseminating information, while still using the other media of communication. Keywords - Social Science, media accessibility, media preference, utilization, SocialSecurity System, retiring SSS members, descriptive design, Philippines

Rentenreformen 1998–2001: Eine (vorläufige) Bestandsaufnahme

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Borgmann ◽  
Pascal Krimmer ◽  
Bernd Raffelhüschen
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Generational Accounting ◽  
German Government ◽  
Reform Proposal ◽  
Recent Reform

Abstract Since the current German government has stepped into office, there have been numerous corrections to the `pay-as-you-go-financed’ Social Security system. Adjustments to both the pressure of demographics and the labour market will have severe intergenerational impacts, which are reported with the help of generational accounting. Our findings suggest that the recent reform proposals do in fact reduce the burden on future generations. In the early version of the reform proposal mainly the younger generations paid the price, whereas the version which has been passed into law shifts most of the burden to the elderly.

The Determinant of the Employment-Social Protection Relation in Turkey

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Davuthan Günaydın
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
The Social

Social protection can be recognized as one of the most significant social achievements of the last century. In this study one of the most important issues of labour market in Turkey - employment-social protection relationship - will be evaluated. It can hardly be argued that Turkey has a comprehensive social protection system. An important part of people who are at the age of working are not covered by the social security system with reasons such as: low labour force participation rate, prevalence of informal employment, child labour, high share of employment in the agricultural sector, the weakness of the social security system and problems of labour market regulation. This situation increases the need of social protection systems. On the other hand, weakness in coordination between the institutions those operate in the field of social assistance and lack of appropriate criteria in determining the real people in need cause inefficient and inadequate supplying of services and inefficiency in using sources.

scholarly journals From welfare to warfare: class struggle on the margins

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jamie Redman
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Employment Service ◽  
Regulation Theory ◽  
Régulation Theory

Since the mid-1980s, UK welfare reform has seen policymakers incrementally re-design the framing, structure and delivery of the UK’s social security system. Britain’s network of benefit administration and employment service offices have experienced a range of expenditure cuts and are increasingly governed by a new ‘workfarist’ mesh of behavioural conditionality and labour market activation policy. The overarching purpose of this, or at least according to a number of key politicians, has been to ensure labour market discipline among the UK’s out-of-work claiming population by transforming the social security system into a device for altering behaviour. In recent decades, a number of critical interpretations of welfare reform have emerged; two of which have been dominant above all others. One interpretation—heavily influenced by Marxist regulation theory—suggests that welfare reform has emerged as a logical social policy compliment to wider processes of labour market restructuring and a rise in low-paying, contingent ‘jobs that nobody wants’. This interpretation suggests that the services tasked with delivering welfare reform are experienced as sites of discipline and deterrence; ensuring that out-of-work claimants engage with unattractive jobs. A second interpretation—evolving partially out of regulation theory but significantly developed and heavily influenced by Wacquant—suggests that welfare reform has emerged as one part of a dual regulatory response to manage a surge in social unrest and urban marginality. This interpretation suggests that the services tasked with delivering welfare reform are experienced as sites of criminalisation and suffering in order to correct behavioural dysfunction and bend out-of-work claimants towards dependency on low-wage, precarious work. The present thesis offers an alternative interpretation. It is suggested here that UK welfare reform has emerged in response to an accumulation of working class struggles. Drawing on longitudinal interviews with 15 young male claimants and 11 interviews with frontline benefit administration/employment service workers, it is also suggested here that the services tasked with delivering welfare reform are experienced as sites of class struggle. On one side of the desk, frontline workers operate in pressured conditions to probe for claimant resistance, ensure work-related compliance and, in some instances, antagonise claimants in efforts to secure their resignation from benefit receipt. Whilst, on the other side of the desk, claimants use a range of methods to struggle against and subvert frontline service delivery in favour of prioritising their own individual needs and interests.

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