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{"title":"Income inequalities in longevity among Spanish retirement pensioners aged 65+: A comprehensive analysis from 2008 to 2021","authors":"Carlos Vidal-Meliá,&nbsp;Marta Regúlez-Castillo,&nbsp;Juan Manuel Pérez-Salamero González","doi":"10.1111/issr.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines disparities in longevity among Spanish retirement pensioners aged 65+, focusing on pension income and gender between 2008 and 2021. Using linked administrative records, we estimate life expectancy and complementary indicators (median, modal age at death, interquartile range). Results show persistent income-related gaps, especially for men, who face both shorter and less predictable lives, while female inequalities are smaller and tend to converge. Compared internationally, Spain displays distinctive narrowings for women but a widen-then-narrow pattern for men. Beyond documenting disparities, the article highlights how each longevity indicator offers distinct policy uses – for actuarial fairness, pension liabilities, and health and elderly care aimed at enhancing the well-being of disadvantaged groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"53-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Financial retirement planning processes in the Netherlands: How do they differ between employees and solo self-employed workers?","authors":"Camilla Marabini,&nbsp;Marleen Damman,&nbsp;Paulina Pankowska","doi":"10.1111/issr.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The solo self-employed workforce is growing across Europe, a group which often faces greater individual responsibility for retirement preparation than employees. Using a situational strength framework, this study investigates psychological mechanisms behind retirement planning among employees and three types of solo self-employed workers: voluntary, natural, and forced. Based on survey data from 3,450 Dutch workers aged 40–67, a multi-group structural equation model reveals that, compared to employees and other types of solo self-employed workers, future time perspective influences perceived retirement savings adequacy considerably more strongly among voluntary self-employed workers. These findings underscore the situational-contingent nature of retirement planning and highlight the vulnerability of certain self-employed groups in pension policy debates.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"3-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating social protection and occupational health services: A scoping review","authors":"Nathalie Both,&nbsp;Marietou Niang,&nbsp;Lou Tessier,&nbsp;Ana Catalina Ramirez,&nbsp;Aurore Iradukunda,&nbsp;Tatiana Agbadje,&nbsp;Gloria Ayivi-Vinz,&nbsp;Frédéric Bergeron,&nbsp;Dejan Loncar","doi":"10.1111/issr.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70011","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Human health is shaped by physiological factors and by social, environmental, behavioural, and political conditions. Annually, occupational risks are a major contributor to a significant number of avoidable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years. Addressing such determinants requires action beyond the health sector, with increasing recognition of the value of multisectoral approaches to achieving health equity. Social protection and occupational health services systems both address these determinants of health and share a public health objective: preventing occupational injuries and diseases, supporting healthcare access, and facilitating rehabilitation. Among social protection schemes, social health protection plays a core role. This scoping review identifies documented linkages between social health protection and occupational health services in the global literature, highlighting both promising practices and coordination gaps between these two sub-systems. Strengthening these linkages through intersectoral policy and practice can reinforce both systems, particularly in the face of global crises such as climate change. To our knowledge, this is the first mapping of the published literature on this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La santé humaine dépend de facteurs physiologiques et de déterminants sociaux, environnementaux, comportementaux et politiques. Chaque année, les risques professionnels jouent un rôle important dans un grand nombre de décès évitables et dans les années de vie corrigées de l’incapacité. Influer sur ces déterminants exige une action qui va au-delà du secteur de la santé, l’intérêt de recourir à des approches multisectorielles pour parvenir à l’équité sanitaire étant de plus en plus reconnu. Le système de protection sociale et le système de médecine du travail visent l’un et l’autre à agir sur ces déterminants de la santé et partagent un même objectif de santé publique, qui consiste à prévenir les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles, à permettre l’accès aux soins et à faciliter la réadaptation. La protection sociale de la santé joue un rôle central parmi les régimes de protection sociale. Cette étude exploratoire recense les liens entre protection sociale et médecine du travail qui ont été documentés dans la littérature internationale, mettant en lumière à la fois des pratiques prometteuses et des faiblesses dans la coordination de ces deux systèmes. Le renforcement de ces liens au moyen de politiques et pratiques intersectorielles pourrait consolider les deux systèmes, en particulier dans le contexte de crises mondiales telles que le changement climatique. Cette étude est, à notre connaissance, la première qui brosse un panorama des travaux consacrés à cette question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La salud humana depende de factores fisiológicos y de determinantes sociales, ambientales, políticos y de comportamiento. Cada año, los riesgos profesionales desempeñan un papel importante en un número considerable de muertes evitables y en los añ","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"79-98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730417","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":"Index for 2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/issr.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"121-124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719418","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":"Early pension withdrawals and their uneven long-term effects in Peru","authors":"Javier Olivera,&nbsp;José A. Valderrama","doi":"10.1111/issr.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70012","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This article examines the potential impact of early pension withdrawals from Peru's individual retirement account system. Originally introduced as a policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of large withdrawals were allowed during and after the pandemic. We find that these policies can reduce expected pension wealth by about 40 per cent, but there are important heterogeneous effects. There is a socio-economic gradient in the distribution of pension fund losses, with individuals at the lower end of the income or savings distribution experiencing larger losses. Losses are also higher for men and older people, who have less time to rebuild their pension pots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cet article porte sur l’impact potentiel des retraits anticipés de l’épargne-retraite des comptes individuels au Pérou. La possibilité d’effectuer des retraits anticipés a initialement été introduite par les pouvoirs publics en réaction à la pandémie de COVID-19, et de nombreux retraits d’ampleur ont été autorisés pendant et après la crise sanitaire. Nous constatons que ce type de mesure peut réduire d’environ 40 pour cent la valeur du patrimoine retraite espéré, mais que l’hétérogénéité est forte. Nous observons un gradient socio-économique dans la répartition de ces pertes, celles-ci étant plus lourdes pour les personnes situées au bas de l’échelle du revenu ou de l’épargne. Les hommes et les seniors, qui ont moins de temps pour reconstituer leur épargne-retraite, sont également davantage pénalisés que les autres.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;En este artículo se estudian las posibles repercusiones de los retiros anticipados de las cuentas individuales de capitalización en el Perú. Durante y después de la COVID-19, se permitió realizar numerosas retiradas de elevada cuantía, medidas que se adoptaron inicialmente para responder ante dicha situación de pandemia. Se considera que estas medidas pueden reducir el capital previsto de las pensiones en aproximadamente un 40 por ciento, si bien traen consigo importantes efectos de carácter heterogéneo. Se produce una desigualdad socioeconómica en la distribución de las pérdidas de los fondos de pensiones, que son mayores tanto en el caso de las personas con menos ingresos o ahorros, como en el caso de los hombres y las personas de edad avanzada, y además estas últimas disponen de menos tiempo para restablecer sus ahorros para la jubilación.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dieser Artikel untersucht die möglichen Auswirkungen vorzeitiger Auszahlungen aus dem individuellen Rentenkontosystem Perus. Ursprünglich als politische Reaktion auf die COVID-19-Pandemie eingeführt, wurden während und nach der Pandemie eine Reihe größerer Entnahmen zugelassen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass diese Maßnahmen das erwartete Rentenvermögen um etwa 40 Prozent verringern können, wobei jedoch erhebliche heterogene Effekte bestehen. Es gibt ein sozioökonomisches Gefälle bei der Verteilung der Verluste in den Rentenfonds, wobei Personen am unteren Ende der Einkommens- oder Vermögensverteilung größere Verlu","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"31-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730416","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":"Predicting disability pension risk among public-sector employees in Finland: A new evaluation tool for employers","authors":"Petra Sohlman,&nbsp;Risto Louhi,&nbsp;Janne Salonen","doi":"10.1111/issr.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we use unique research data to investigate the risk of exit from the workforce on the grounds of the award of a disability pension under the statutory public-sector pension scheme in Finland. Statistical analysis yields two indicators: the risk for permanent disability retirement and the critical duration of sickness absence days in public-sector occupations. The analysis is based on a logistic regression model where the outcome is retirement on a disability pension, with sickness benefit spells and other individual background information used as covariates. The results underline the importance of minimizing sickness absences and their duration and reveal differences in the risk rate between occupations. We conclude that the proposed risk model is a promising tool that can help employers and the pension industry prevent permanent disability.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"99-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social assistance and informal social networks and the resilience of the population in Ukraine","authors":"Olena Kupenko,&nbsp;Tetyana Ivanova,&nbsp;Andriana Kostenko,&nbsp;Valentyna Opanasiuk","doi":"10.1111/issr.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70006","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Resilience is conceptualized as a property of subjects (individuals, families, households, communities, or nations) and is intrinsically linked to coping with and overcoming vulnerability, indicating that subjects may require external assistance during crises. Ukraine's social protection system during the Russian-Ukrainian war has demonstrated sufficient resilience in protecting against life-cycle risks. The State has also responded rapidly to the emergency crisis of war. International humanitarian organizations likewise have responded rapidly with numerous humanitarian aid programmes. However, funding opportunities are diminishing. This requires the most efficient use of limited resources. This study implements a community-oriented approach, with a focus on localization in risk distribution through an analysis of monitoring data produced by international organizations and local research in Ukrainian communities. Key findings include overestimated expectations of family and friend support coupled with underestimated self-reliance (approximately 20 per cent) during 2022–2024. Institutional support (volunteer, public, and international organizations) showed increased significance, while overall self-reliance decreased in favour of external support sources. Future research directions include analysing expected-versus-actual assistance dynamics, investigating social support structure change factors, examining social trust transformation across institutions, and developing optimized support resource distribution programmes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La résilience est conceptualisée comme une propriété de sujets (individus, familles, ménages, communautés ou nations) et est étroitement liée à la capacité à faire face aux vulnérabilités et à les combattre. Ainsi, les sujets peuvent avoir besoin d’une aide extérieure en cas de crise. Durant la guerre opposant la Russie à l’Ukraine, le système de protection sociale ukrainien a fait montre de suffisamment de résilience pour protéger les populations contre les risques de l’existence. L’État a lui aussi rapidement pris des mesures d’urgence face à la guerre, à l’instar des organisations humanitaires internationales, qui ont déployé de nombreux programmes d’aide humanitaire. Toutefois, les possibilités de financement se réduisent comme peau de chagrin, ce qui implique une utilisation la plus efficiente possible de ressources limitées. Cette étude adopte une approche communautaire et met l’accent sur la localisation de la répartition des risques, en analysant les données de suivi d’organisations internationales et de recherches locales menées au sein des communautés ukrainiennes. Une surestimation des attentes en matière de soutien familial et amical ainsi qu’une sous-estimation de l’autonomie (environ 20 pour cent) figurent parmi les principales conclusions pour la période 2022-2024. Le soutien institutionnel (organisations bénévoles, publiques et internationales) a gagné en importance, tandis que l’autonomie a, dans l’ensembl","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 2-3","pages":"191-218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038083","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":"Social protection and resilience in protracted crises","authors":"Carolina Holland-Szyp,&nbsp;Jeremy Lind","doi":"10.1111/issr.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article critically examines perspectives on social protection’s role in strengthening resilience capacities in protracted crises – contexts where conflict and displacement persist for five years or longer. These crises shape how stakeholders navigate their mandates to provide support, while influencing how affected communities seek to withstand, recover from, and adapt to ongoing shocks. International actors have promoted social protection as a means to strengthen absorptive, adaptive and transformative resilience capacities at household and community levels. While resilience has become a central concept in social protection policy and programming, much underlying evidence and assumptions stem from stable settings. Protracted crises introduce increased and distinct challenges, including conflict-related insecurity, disrupted public services, and legal uncertainty for displaced populations. Despite these difficulties, social protection for resilience-strengthening is still encouraged as an alternative to piecemeal humanitarian assistance. Drawing on global policy and research reports, and empirical evidence from a multi-country research programme, this article identifies four key limitations in approaches that aim to strengthen resilience through social protection in protracted crises. First, many approaches focus on supporting absorptive capacities. Second, there is often misalignment between the nature of interventions and the drivers of vulnerability. Third, current sectoral approaches work in silos. Finally, there is insufficient attention to local support mechanisms. By critically engaging with these limitations, this article contributes to debates on the relationship between social protection and resilience. It concludes by offering reflections on how aid actors can reconsider their approaches, advocating for strategies that are more collaborative, understanding of, and adapted to local contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 2-3","pages":"173-190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supporting coordinated approaches across health and social protection systems to enhance resilience","authors":"Nathalie Both,&nbsp;Lou Tessier","doi":"10.1111/issr.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The channels through which shocks and stressors affect individual’s health and socioeconomic vulnerability are often similar or closely intertwined. Similarly, the effectiveness of the respective responses of social protection and health systems to shocks and stressors are highly interdependent or mutually reinforcing. The effectiveness of a social protection system response in supporting income security and ensuring continuous access to health and other essential services is itself strongly dependent on the ability of the health system to continue delivering quality services. In turn, the effectiveness of public health measures during crises are bolstered by social protection responses that support income security and access to essential services with an impact on nutrition, housing, and other social determinants of health. Yet, such responses are too often implemented in siloes and policies to strengthen those systems are too often competing. In the face of ongoing megatrends that increasingly drive shocks and stressors and enhance vulnerabilities, the article addresses the question of how health and social protection systems can better coordinate to strengthen the resilience of populations.</p><p>The channels through which shocks and stressors affect individual’s health and socioeconomic vulnerability are often similar or closely intertwined. Similarly, the effectiveness of the respective responses of social protection and health systems to shocks and stressors are highly interdependent or mutually reinforcing. The effectiveness of a social protection system response in supporting income security and ensuring continuous access to health and other essential services is itself strongly dependent on the ability of the health system to continue delivering quality services. In turn, the effectiveness of public health measures during crises are bolstered by social protection responses that support income security and access to essential services with an impact on nutrition, housing, and other social determinants of health. Yet, such responses are too often implemented in siloes and policies to strengthen those systems are too often competing. In the face of ongoing megatrends that increasingly drive shocks and stressors and enhance vulnerabilities, the article addresses the question of how health and social protection systems can better coordinate to strengthen the resilience of populations.</p><p>Los canales a través de los cuales las perturbaciones y los factores de estrés afectan a la vulnerabilidad sanitaria y socioeconómica de las personas a menudo son similares o están interrelacionados. De igual manera, la efectividad de las respuestas de los sistemas de protección social y de salud a las perturbaciones y a los factores de estrés son muy interdependientes, o se refuerzan mutuamente. La efectividad de la respuesta del sistema de protección social a la hora de apoyar la seguridad del ingreso y garantizar el acceso continuo a servicios de sal","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 2-3","pages":"79-96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038463","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":"Social protection and the climate crisis: The case of Brazil’s emergency responses to the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods","authors":"Raquel Tebaldi","doi":"10.1111/issr.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2024 floods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, prompted the largest and most rapid response to an extreme weather event in the country’s history. Brazil is a compelling case for analysing shock-responsive and climate-adaptive social protection because of its high level of decentralization and significant maturity of its social protection system. Brazil is also highly susceptible to climate risks, and as climate change intensifies, bringing more frequent and severe weather events, strengthening the resilience of social protection systems becomes increasingly vital. This case study examines the Brazilian government’s emergency responses, with a particular focus on the federal and state interventions, drawing from an analysis of the official literature and key informant interviews. The analysis shows how significant levels of emergency support were mobilized by federal and state governments, and the system features that enabled a quick response, such as the use of technology for mapping affected areas and the use of existing government databases. Nonetheless, actors faced challenges in terms of coordination between different levels of governance and in terms of emergency preparedness. This study provides some reflections on the obstacles encountered by federal and state actors and points to areas for further improvement at the system level.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"78 2-3","pages":"123-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}