Abstract
Analysis of the various national reports reveals a diversity of opinions as to the approach of the financial problems in social security during recent years. The little common was that serious financial problems had arisen in all countries under the impact of stagnant economic growth, accompanied by sharply rising unemployment. These problems became manifest in either rising financing deficits or higher levels of contributions and/or tax rates.
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A fictitious employee whose income is computed for budgetting purposes.
For the sake of simplicity, other levels such as natural gas, revenues have been excluded.
In fact almost every financing measure involves some redistribution. Here, however, we are referring to measures which are explicitly designed to bring about a redistribution, as indicated in section 4.4.
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Pierik, J. (1984). The financing of social security. In: The social security and the economic crisis II Proceedings of the European Institute for Social Security / La sécurité sociale et la crise économique II Travaux de l’Institut Européen de Sécurité Sociale. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6825-0_3
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