Social security systems in Tanzania: Phase II: Co-operatives and Social Protection

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
AST Mchomvu ◽  
Felician Tungaraza ◽  
Sam Maghimbi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems

scholarly journals Digital Single Market and coordination of social security systems – interoperability solutions at the service of social protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Sophie Perez Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
High Quality

One of the fundamental pillars to the full achievement of the Digital Single Market is the development of eGovernment/e-administration. As a key priority of the current moment of the European integration process, the implementation of the Digital Single Market has the potential to lay down the foundations for a public administration capable of providing crossborder mobility in the Single Market of the Union by means of high quality, interoperable and digital public services. To exemplify the characteristics outlined for the configuration of a public administration of the Digital Single Market, we will seek to give concrete form to the model that is emerging in a specific area of EU law which has critical importance for the European integration process – the coordination of social security systems. Its consideration allows us to test the implementation of the Digital Single Market in the public sector through digital, interoperable, and high-quality cross-border public administration.

Digitalisation and social security in the EU. The case of platform work: from work protection to income protection?

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-451
Author(s):  
Paul Schoukens
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
Precarious Situation ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Specific Working

Platform workers face problems in accessing effective social protection schemes. Furthermore, these workers are not always in a position to build up robust social protection rights even in case they can participate in the schemes. Compared to standard workers, they work in a precarious situation. The small tasks they perform, their geographical mobility and their low earnings are issues that create problems for social security systems’ ability to accommodate these workers. In this contribution, attention to the specific working conditions of platform workers is given; starting from the concept of standard work and a discussion of the way platform work deviates from that performed by standard workers (the original basis used to design traditional social protection schemes). In a second part of this paper, the various challenges that platform work create for social protection schemes are enunciated. In the third part of the contribution, the recent EU Recommendation on access to social protection is used as a yardstick to discuss what kind of answers should be given to accommodate platform workers in social protection schemes. In the final part, conclusions around three elements that are characteristic of platform work, yet not sufficiently addressed in national social protection schemes, nor in the EU Recommendation, are developed. These observations help to establish findings on the future outlook of social protection schemes, which should be inclusive and accommodative for all (new) types of work.

scholarly journals Adapting social protection to the needs of multiple jobholders in Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 102425892199103
Author(s):  
Lukas Jerg ◽  
Jacqueline O’Reilly ◽  
Karin Schulze Buschoff
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Employment System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
Different Levels

Working in two or more jobs at the same time creates special needs in terms of social security that differ from those of standard dependent employees or the self-employed. To investigate how well social security systems adapt to multiple jobholders we examine three case studies of countries with different levels and trends in multiple jobholding: Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany. We review recent trends and policies to address social protection gaps for multiple jobholders in these countries prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the extent to which the emergence of the ‘platform economy’ can exacerbate multiple jobholding. We conclude that attempts to resolve the gaps in social security protection reflect distinctive characteristics of each employment system.

scholarly journals The Problem of Social Protection in Albania

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Arlinda Shkreli Axhemi ◽  
Gert Dragoshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
The Social

The aim of this paper is to analyze the social protection system in Albania during the last two decades. It highlights some of the problems and issues which are closely associated with elements of social security, as a phenomenon that focuses on finding solutions or solving the problems in social security systems in Albania. Of great importance are the changes in the social security legislation in recent years, which led to a new structure of the social insurance market in Albanian society. Also discussed are the types of benefits offered by our social insurance system. Our country occupies a special place in relation to the problems it has encountered with social protection and the social security law.

scholarly journals The EU social pillar

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schoukens ◽  
Alberto Barrio ◽  
Saskia Montebovi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Standard Employment Relationship ◽  
The Eu

With atypical work gaining popularity, platform work seems to combine all the elements which, by deviating significantly from the standard employment relationship, challenge social security systems. After an overview of the features of the standard employment relationship and the different ways in which non-standard forms of work diverge from them, the article focuses on the nature of platform work. It then analyses how platform work is regulated in five European social security systems (i.e. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium), and how this regulation may fare when analysed under the lens of the recent European Commission’s proposal for a Council Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. The article concludes by highlighting the need for further adaptation of social security systems to the specific features of platform work, and by noting the risks of a regulatory approach towards this new form of work being dominated by the exclusion of low-paid work from the scope of labour-related social insurance schemes.

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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