The formation of social insurance institutions of the Baltic States in the post-socialist era
The formation of social insurance institutions of the Baltic States in the post-socialist era
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后社会主义时代波罗的海国家社会保险机构的形成
DOI:
10.1177/0958928706065597
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Jolanta Aidukaite
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作者:
Jolanta Aidukaite
This paper provides an overview of the differences that have emerged in the social insurance systems of the three Baltic countries since they regained their independence. It assesses how closely the institutional structures of social insurance in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania approximate to various ideal types of social security institutions to be found in the research literature. The findings indicate that, in general terms, the social security system of Estonia and Latvia can be labelled as a mix of the basic security and corporatist model, even if there are also some weak elements of the targeted model. In contrast, it appears that the institutional changes developing in the social security system of Lithuania have led to a combination of the basic security and targeted models of welfare. Even if they started with identical social security institutions inherited from the Soviet period, there is not only similarity, but also diversity in how these countries are now addressing problems in the social policy field.