Social protection, inequality and labour market risks in Central and Eastern Europe

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Noelke
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Market Risks

Welfare reforms and socio-economic trends in the 10 new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Aidukaite
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
New Eu Member States ◽  
Better Than ◽  
The Eu

The paper reviews recent socio-economic changes in the 10 new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe and the earlier and latest debates on the emergence of the post-communist welfare state regime. It asks two questions: are the new EU member states more similar to each other in their social problems encountered than to the rest of the EU world? Do they exhibit enough common socio-economic and institutional features to group them into the distinct/unified post-communist welfare regime that deviates from any well-known welfare state typology? The findings of this paper indicate that despite some slight variation within, the new EU countries exhibit lower indicators compared to the EU-15 as it comes to the minimum wage and social protection expenditure. The degree of material deprivation and the shadow economy is on average also higher if compared to the EU-15 or the EU-27. However, then it comes to at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers or Gini index, some Eastern European outliers especially the Check Republic, but also Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary perform the same or even better than the old capitalist democracies. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, however, show many similarities in their social indicators and performances and this group of countries never perform better than the EU-15 or the EU-27 averages. Nevertheless, the literature reviews on welfare state development in the CEE region reveal a number of important institutional features in support of identifying the distinct/unified post-communist welfare regime. Most resilient of it are: an insurance-based programs that played a major part in the social protection system; high take-up of social security; relatively low social security benefits; increasing signs of liberalization of social policy; and the experience of the Soviet/Communist type of welfare state, which implies still deeply embedded signs of solidarity and universalism.

scholarly journals COSTS OF THE HUMAN CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL POTENTIAL IN ACCOUNTING SYSTEM FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-196
Author(s):  
Alexander PSHINKO ◽  
Liudmila GOLOVKOVA ◽  
Viktoriia KOLOMIIETS ◽  
Liliia DOBRYK
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Budget Analysis ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Potential

Nowadays, human capital and social potential become the most valuable resource for the harmonious development of the national economy. Expenditure on human capital and social development should occupy a significant part in the state budgets of countries. Therefore, accounting of such expenses is extremely important. The purpose of the study is to reveal the possibility of accounting for expenditures on the human capital and social potential development in the accounting system of the Central and Eastern Europe, provide recommendations for the current accounting system. The research revealed the plurality and ambiguity of the interpretation for the categories «human capital» and «social potential». The regulatory and legislative uncertainty complicates the accounting of the human capital costs and development of the social potential. These categories must be defined by law. As per normative and methodological basis for the accounting of the human capital, it would be better to apply the International Financial Reporting Standards. The absence or misrepresentation of information about available human capital are contrary to IFRS requirements and reduces or exaggerates the value of the organization. It is offered in IFRS, to provide a comprehensive accounting of the cost for the human capital and developing social capacity. The budget of the Central and Eastern European countries includes only the costs of social protection, health, education, recreation, culture, religion. After the budget analysis was conducted, the authors proposed to develop new objects of accounting (human capital, social potential), accounting standards for it. A part of the GDP expenses should be directed to the financing of the human capital expenditures and social potential development. JEL: E24, G41, H83.

scholarly journals The comparative empirical analysis of the social protection system in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Emerging models of capitalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-175
Author(s):  
Piotr Maszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western European ◽  
Institutional Architecture

AbstractThis article analyzes the institutional architecture and the level of similarity between the social protection system in 11 new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe and chosen Western European countries, representing four different models of capitalism identified by Amable. In the selected institutional area, a comparative analysis was performed, and based on it, similarity hexagons were created. They serve the purpose of comparing Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries with Western European countries of reference. The dynamic approach adopted in this study—two different time periods were compared—allows an analysis of path dependence and the evolution of institutional architecture over time. The analysis indicates that in 2014, in the area of social protection, almost all CEE countries, apart from Latvia and Romania, were most comparable to the Continental model of capitalism represented by Germany. Nevertheless, the variety of results for the individual variables (especially input and output variables) and substantial changes between 2005 and 2014 also show that the model of capitalism prevailing in Central and Eastern Europe in the area of the social protection system is evolving constantly at a very fast pace and thus currently may be called a hybrid or even patchwork capitalism.

scholarly journals Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for German Citizens Abroad

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-226
Author(s):  
Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Government ◽  
German Citizenship ◽  
Robust System

Abstract This chapter presents an overview of German policies vis-à-vis German nationals living abroad. For the most part, the German Government does not reach out to or encourage engagement from or with German nationals living abroad. This is in contrast to a concerted cultural outreach to ethno-national German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Rights in Germany are largely residence-based, and access to rights is thus associated with (legal) residence in Germany, rather than with holding German citizenship. There are two clear exceptions: one is a robust system that enables voting from abroad for German citizens, and the other is facilitated access from abroad to pensions for years worked in Germany. With respect to other measures of social protections, no clear policy can be said to exist. Access to other forms of social protection is on the basis of exception, with consular officials exercising discretion in such cases.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF OFFSHORING ON THE EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKET

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Jakub Kraciuk
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

This study shows the differences in wages of workers from the EU countries according to various levels of education. It also shows the level of offshoring in the analysed countries and its impact on the salaries. It was found that the largest wage gap between the high-skilled and the low-skilled workers exists both in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and in the countries such as Germany and Portugal. Results of the analysis show that offshoring contributes to a decrease in wages of workers in the countries of the European Union. Nonetheless, the highest decrease in wages is visible among workers with the lowest skills, and the lowest decrease can be seen among workers with the highest skills.

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