{"title":"Employer Attitudes Towards Social Insurance Compliance in Shanghai, China","authors":"C. Nyland, S. B. Thomson, Cherrie Zhu","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2011.01412.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2011.01412.x","url":null,"abstract":"Managing employer social insurance compliance is a particularly difficult governance challenge in emerging economies that have weak regulatory regimes. Utilizing qualitative evidence from eight case studies conducted in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, this article details how employers respond to attempts by the State to manage social insurance behaviour. Five concerns arose from employers' perceptions and responses to the established policies and regulatory structures: construction of an effective policy, level playing field, cost control, firm reputation, and recruitment and retention. Further, the findings indicate that there are three enterprise features that could affect compliance behaviour: risk factors, skill composition of the workforce, and form of ownership. It was anticipated that firm size may affect compliance behaviour, but no clear pattern emerged.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127066213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Pillared Social Insurance Systems: The Post-Reform Picture in Chile, Uruguay and Brazil","authors":"F. Anta, A. Lanzara","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2010.01384.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2010.01384.x","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on an analysis of social insurance models and reforms in Chile, Uruguay and Brazil. Noting that these three countries are following different reform trajectories, the article explores trends in the restructuring of each of these insurance systems across the course of successive reforms. In the systems, different trends are supporting a closer link between contributions and benefits, according growing importance to private individual accounts and favouring the expansion of the role played by social assistance. These trends all suggest a move towards various forms of multi-pillared social insurance, but with uncertain results in terms of redistribution and the dynamics of the fundamental objectives of social insurance.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124768918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Russian Federation: Confronting the Special Challenges of Ageing and Social Security Policy in an Era of Demographic Crisis","authors":"Nicholas N. Eberstadt, Hans Groth","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2010.01369.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2010.01369.x","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the Russian Federation's demographic crisis and the implications it holds for the ability of the Russian government (or the Russian people through their own efforts) to generate enough funds to provide a reasonable level of old-age economic security. Although Russia's overall population profile structure stands to be broadly similar to that of other more-developed societies, both today and in coming decades, the challenges of providing for an ageing population are far more acute for Russia than for typical Member States of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. One factor that adds significantly to the problem is that working-age Russians today suffer substantially worse health and higher mortality than residents of other countries at similar — and indeed even at much lower — levels of income. Although the arguments presented focus on pensions, the same factors that will make it difficult to supply adequate pensions also mean that other aspects of social protection will be similarly difficult to fulfil. Successful social security policy for Russia, consequently, will depend upon much more than social programmes alone: it will require the reduction of mortality rates for working-age individuals, the revitalization of higher education, and fundamental reform of the country's institutions and economic policies.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120683363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-National Policy Learning in Health System Reform: The Case of Diagnosis Related Groups","authors":"Achim Schmid, R. Götze","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2009.01344.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2009.01344.x","url":null,"abstract":"Observations of policy convergence and the cross-national diffusion of ideas, knowledge and policies have raised the question about the ways countries might learn from their peers. This article examines the role of cross-national learning with regard to Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). We review the spread of this policy instrument and analyse the implementation of DRGs in three late-adopting countries: Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The three cases show that the implementation of this policy instrument required intense studies, cooperation with stakeholders and adjustment to country-specific needs. The countries learned from foreign experience, but it was only with the introduction of a regulatory framework for competition between sickness funds that DRGs came fully onto the political agenda. While Germany and Switzerland drew upon foreign DRG models, the Netherlands developed an alternative system to classify patients according to case-mix.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127583028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Care Insurance in Japan: Beyond a Binary Vision of State and Family","authors":"Kusuto Naïto","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2009.01337.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2009.01337.x","url":null,"abstract":"Despite significant regional diversity in household structures and the existence of community solidarity in Japan, caring for elderly dependent persons has traditionally been considered an exclusively family, and female, responsibility. However, as a result of socio-demographic changes during the second half of the twentieth century, a public system of health care insurance was introduced in 2000. The objective of this development was to “socialize” family and female care activities. This article presents a critical analysis of Japan's health care insurance system and the context that gave rise to its introduction. An important issue is whether the system meets the needs of the elderly and their carers (family and non-family). A further issue is whether the system can take account of regional diversity, diversity in household situations (above and beyond financial concerns), and societal values and beliefs. The article concludes by arguing that demographic ageing presents a societal requirement for the ongoing adjustment of behaviour patterns and living arrangements.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120301630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Labour Market and Retirement Pension - Flexible Transition as a New Paradigm for Ageing Societies?","authors":"Stephan Bredt","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2008.00325.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2008.00325.x","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing the pensionable age due to rising life expectancy meets strong political resistance. For health and labour market reasons it will always be impossible for some to achieve full pension eligibility directly from employment. Even if early retirement options are not restricted the scope for an accumulation of earnings to fund an early pension is often narrowly defined. Consequently, it is impossible for early retirees to compensate for the reductions in the pension they receive. Contrary to the general tendency to increase the pensionable age an alternative reform proposal is currently under discussion in German social policy circles. This involves free choice of retirement at age 60; unlimited accumulation of additional pension entitlements whilst earning; actuarial deductions for early retirement; and consideration of life expectancy in making adjustments to pension awards. This solution relieves the public pension system financially, raises the attractiveness of senior citizens on the labour market, offers the opportunity for a self-determined transition from work to retirement and reduces political resistance to pension reform. The effect on the labour market for senior citizens remains to be examined.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130360068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notional Defined Contribution Pensions with Public Reserve Funds in Ageing Economies: An Application to Japan","authors":"Bei Lu, O. Mitchell, J. Piggott","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2008.00321.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2008.00321.x","url":null,"abstract":"Several developed and developing countries have recently adopted a notional defined contribution (NDC) approach to old-age pension reform. The NDC is essentially a non-pre-funded defined contribution retirement system, in which contributions are credited with a rate of return related to aggregate payroll growth, and individual account accruals are maintained in a book-keeping system. Payouts are annuitized based on the expected mortality of each succeeding retiring cohort. NDC plans may be identified with appropriately calibrated Pay-As-You-Go plans in demographic equilibrium, but the two paradigms diverge when demographic shift is introduced. This paper investigates the key actuarial and economic implications of alternative NDC rules, with a particular focus on Japan, the world's most rapidly ageing economy. We examine the potential role for pension reserves in transitioning to an NDC system, and we show these can be used to smooth the impact of demographic transition to an older society. Finally, we show that countries such as Japan could elect to use pension reserves accumulated in the past to facilitate the transition to an NDC system.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131615803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty","authors":"Miles Corak","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-246X.2006.00237.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2006.00237.x","url":null,"abstract":"This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries since about 1990 when the Convention on the Rights of the Child came into force. Finally, the third objective is to formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of child poverty reduction targets, it involves the development of appropriate and timely information sources, and finally it involves the clarification of feasible targets that may vary across the OECD.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"309 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120243247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contribution Compliance in Central and Eastern European Countries: Some Relevant Issues","authors":"Tine Stanovnik","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-246X.2004.00202.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-246X.2004.00202.X","url":null,"abstract":"A number of central and eastern European countries reformed their pension systems during the 1990s. In the preparation of these reforms, insufficient attention was given to the institutional and administrative aspects - and the related problem of contribution collection. This article presents a broad overview of what has actually been happening with contribution collection and contribution compliance in these countries. It also provides a brief description of administrative changes relevant for contribution collection.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124446816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting Social Security Worldwide: The Role of the ISSA","authors":"Roddy Mckinnon","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-246X.2004.00192.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-246X.2004.00192.X","url":null,"abstract":"At a time when more emphasis is being placed on the value of organizational collaboration, the article argues that the International Social Security Association should assume a more active and vocal position in promoting a central role for large-scale, compulsory social security within emerging international-organization-defined \"social protection\" strategies and policy sets. Outlining proposals for achieving this goal, the article draws attention to likely internal and external obstacles in its path.","PeriodicalId":338399,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: International Social Security Review","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127553750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}