Financial Effects of Social Security System Reforms in Selected Countries of the European Community
Efekty finansowe reform publicznych systemów ubezpieczeń społecznych w wybranych państwach Unii Europejskiej

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents financial effects of social security system reforms in selected countries of the European Community. The main purpose of the study was to answer the following question: how (if at all) the systemic and parametric reforms implemented in Poland, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom improved financial effectiveness of public social security systems in these countries? The assessment of financial effects of the systemic and parametric reforms for social security systems in the target countries included reforms implemented at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. As a research tool, the study uses a quantitative index, hereinafter referred to as an index of system financial effectiveness, calculated as a quotient of the total compulsory insurance contributions and the amount of the payable social benefits.

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