scholarly journals Social security compliance in times of crisis. Evaluating the factors for non-compliance in the HORECA sectors in Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Evangelos Koumarianos ◽  
Apostolos Kapsalis ◽  
Nikolaos Avgeris
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Social Security Reforms ◽  
Security Compliance ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

This article studies the impact of the economic recession, labor market deregulation and social security reforms on the level of non-compliance in Greece. It examines the theoretical framework of non-compliance in post-industrial economies, as well as the design of social security systems in preventing contribution evasion. To assess the evolution of non-compliance, especially under conditions of crisis, we examine the results of the INE-GSEE survey on the HORECA sector. According toour research findings, employers follow non-compliant practices in order to maximize their profits, taking advantage of the precariousness of workers, whereas workers accept or collude with non-compliance as a survival tactic within a highly competitive environment. Non-compliance in the Greek labour market appears to be a multi-factor phenomenon that cannot be explained exclusively in terms of a unique perspective.

scholarly journals The Implications of the Recent Economic Crisis on Fertility in Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Kotzamanis ◽  
Anastasia Kostaki
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Impact

A systematic review of past economic recessions occurred in developed countries confirms that social and economic crises often have serious effects on fertility while, beyond national differentiations, these effects have certain characteristics, e. g. a weak effect on generational fertility;an postponement on the timing of first birth, closely related to a late marriage or union;a close relationship between unemployment and age-specific fertility. The sensitivity of fertility behavior to economic crises is less marked in countries with longstanding family policies and strong social security systems. The recent social and economic recession in Greece took place under different social conditions than many recessions in the past. More women than ever are participating in the labor market, most couples use reliable contraception that enables them to postpone childbearing, while social security and health costs are burdened from the rapidly expanding numbers of elderly. All these factors can affect reproductive decisions and potentially aggravate the negative effects of the recession on fertility. This work, using the latest available official data of Greece, provides an investigation of the impact of the current economic crisis on fertility levels, as well as the evolution of these levels through time.

The Effects of Social Security Privatization on Household Saving: Evidence from Chile

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Lynn Coronado
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Domestic Saving ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Household Saving ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Saving Rates ◽  
Social Security Privatization ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In recent years, a handful of countries have converted the financing of their social security systems from pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) to partial or full funding. Privatization is viewed as one way to insulate social security from the political and demographic pressures that currently threaten the financial stability of PAYGO systems. However, privatization would improve a nation's situation only if such a reform increases domestic saving. In this paper I use evidence from Chile, where social security was privatized in 1981, to assess the impact of such a reform on household saving rates. I find that the reform provided a significant stimulus for net of social security household saving; increasing household saving rates between 5 and 10 percentage points.

scholarly journals The Measurement of Social Security Convergence: The Case of European Public Pension Systems since 1950

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
System Development ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Regime Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

This article proposes a novel way of measuring cross-national changes over time in the outputs of social security systems. Traditional approaches to the comparative analysis of social security systems use expenditure levels, regime types or poverty and inequality rates to rank countries and map change over time. All these approaches encounter the problem of determining how much of the observed change is due to internal developments within the social security system, and how much due to exogenous social and economic factors. Taking the example of public pensions in five European countries since 1950, this article demonstrates how formal social security rules can be used in a simulation model to evaluate changes in public pension payments for a variety of hypothetical individuals characterised by different levels of lifetime income. This procedure produces direct measures of the impact of changes in social security systems which are entirely independent of exogenous developments in social and economic structures. This new method reveals the ‘pure’ effect of internal social security system development over time.

scholarly journals Working Poor in Decommodification Between Belgium and China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-62
Author(s):  
Jinghong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Working Poor ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internal Mechanism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross National

The research uses a comparative analysis framework to interpret the multiple commodification processes for the working poor, which consists of research tropisms from a macro-sight system and from the internal mechanism and proceeding course of the social security system. Based on this framework, the authors try to establish an ideal type with a universal explanatory power to reveal the impact of cross-national diversity on social security systems in the decommodification process among poor female workers. The research also examines the extent to which such differences ever existed between Belgium and China in empirical terms.

scholarly journals Understanding Social Security Development: Lessons From the Chinese Case

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110326
Author(s):  
Guan Huang ◽  
Zhuang Cai
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Security Research ◽  
Chinese Case ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Convergence And Divergence

Understanding the development of social security systems constitutes the ultimate goal of social security research. This review traces and compares two schools of thought regarding social security development: the convergence and divergence schools. Using a thematic approach, this article first categorizes extant studies into one of these two schools and then identifies the broadly accepted mechanism of social security development by comparing them. After reviewing the extant research and its theoretical underpinnings, this article applies Mill’s methods of agreement and difference to show how the Chinese case contributes to and challenges our understanding of social security development. By discussing the assumptions of current research on social security development in light of the Chinese case, this article illuminates how political legitimacy serves as a common mechanism of social security development regardless of political context or structure.

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