Search results for " social security"

The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland

2017

Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…

Patterns of poverty among elderly Americans: a Latent Class Markov Model

2017

ABSTRACTThis article studies poverty persistence and the role of social security programmes on poverty among elderly in the US. We use a Latent Markov model to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Because of its dynamic nature, unobserved heterogeneity is modelled to vary over time. This allows to capture different latent states of poverty that change over time. Result indicates the existence of three unobserved types evolving over time according to their propensity to be poor. Moreover, a strong persistence in poverty especially for women, individuals living alone and ethnic minorities is found. Finally, the estimates indicate that giving social assistance tends to re…

Glosa do uchwały Sądu Najwyższego - Izba Pracy, Ubezpieczeń Społecznych i Spraw Publicznych z dnia 4 sierpnia 2016 r., III UZP 11/16

2017

Precarious work and social protection: between flexicurity and social pollution

2019

The chapter explores the possibility of changing the way in which any social and legal system guarantees social protections for the weakest workers. To do so it elaborates a unique functional set for classifying all kind of precariat, which it names the ‘un[der]-protected workers’. The issue of the precariat is held as an imbalance in the flexicurity balance, considered akin to pollution in the social environment: so-called social pollution. The proposed method to counterbalance the lack of security/protection and rebalance flexicurity is a ‘(non-wage) Social Security (virtual or) Fake (Pigouvian) Tax’ (the SSFT). The idea is that this device either forces companies to hire through SERs (wh…

The European Unemployment Benefit Scheme: Legal Basis for Resocialising Europe

2017

Il presente lavoro analizza la possibile introduzione di un Sussidio europeo di disoccupazione (d’ora in poi EUBS) nella temperie economico-culturale della crisi quale strumento tecnico-giuridico per la risocializzazione dell’Europa. Dopo un’analisi del sistema statunitense di tutela della disoccupazione, che rappresenterebbe un idealtipo in ragione del sistema di competenze condivise tra livello federale e statale, il saggio si concentra sulla legittimità dell’EUBS alla luce dei trattati UE: nonostante l’assenza di un’autonoma potestas normativa europea in materia di sicurezza sociale, l’EUBS potrebbe essere giustificato da un’interpretazione olistica del diritto dell’Unione. Da ultimo, pe…

Lavoro e sicurezza sociale dei migranti economici: l'eguaglianza imperfetta

2021

Il saggio analizza i diritti dei migranti economici in Italia alla luce dei principi di eguaglianza e non discriminazione in chiave multilivello, in relazione ad accesso al lavoro, esecuzione del contratto e prestazioni di sicurezza sociale. Nella prospettiva dei diritti fondamentali del lavoratore il quadro normativo non è per nulla confortante: è estremamente difficile un ingresso regolare dei migranti sul territorio nazionale in virtù della legislazione di riferimento. Inoltre, sul versante dell’assistenza sociale il principio paritario soffre numerose eccezioni che di recente sono state avallate da un revirement del Giudice delle leggi nella sentenza 50/2019 in materia di assegno social…

Problemática laboral de los socios trabajadores de las empresas de Economía Social: ¿socios o trabajadores?

1999

Co-operatives and labour societies are the most important organisations within the framework of Social Economy. The establishment of these societies, which create employment in the private sector with a democratic philosophy based on mutual help, has been recently boosted thanks to the support of public power. Their growing importance can be explained by three factors: the Employment Policy, the Social Policy and the productive decentralisation. As far as labour is concerned, these societies offer the following advantages: intensive use of labour, high rate of stability in employment, high levels of productivity, training and surplus re-inversion, lower rate of inflation, fewer conflicts th…

Success factors of Polish family businesses

2017

This article presents the results of a study carried out among family businesses operating in Poland. It is intended to supplement previously generated knowledge in the area of the operation of family businesses in the specific socio-economic and legal conditions in Poland. The objective was to collate the opinions of entrepreneurs regarding the need for visibility of the family and the family business status in business relations and the marketing activities of enterprises. The data were collected using in-depth interviews with the Polish family business owners. This paper outlines the conclusion of the study with respect to success factors such as: the trust among the family members, flex…

Immigrati e diritti sociali: parità di trattamento e tutela multilivello

2017

Il saggio analizza la tutela antidiscriminatoria di cui godono i lavoratori immigrati all'insegna di una prospettiva multilivello: più in particolare viene descritto il complesso di strumenti normativi del diritto nazionale ed europeo a tutela delle situazioni giuridiche soggettive degli immigrati (ad es., in materia di sicurezza sociale), per come interpretato dalla Corte Costituzionale, dalla Corte di Giustizia e dalla Corte EDU. Da ultimo, vengono analizzati i recenti orientamenti giurisprudenziali, che oscillano tra l'affievolimento del principio paritario in ragione di sempre più stringenti vincoli di bilancio, e la tendenziale parificazione tra cives e non cives alla luce del principi…

Sustainability of Pension Systems in the Baltic States

2016

Objective: The objective of the paper is to identify how the concept of sustainability is understood and ensured in the pension systems of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and what implications it brings to the performance of pension schemes. Research Design & Methods: Analysis of various conceptual and methodological approaches to the notion of sustainability of pension systems. Comparative analysis of present pension legislation, as well as preceding stage of pension reforms,   accompanied by a number of numerical models. Findings: The understanding of sustainability is limited by narrow ‘fiscal’ meaning in Latvia, compared to more a multifaceted concept that includes the principle of socia…