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The use of market forces in social security: How insurance-like should social insurance be?

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Author

Editor

  • Numhauser Henning Ann
  • Rönnmar Mia

Summary, in English

In this chapter two examples are presented were the Swedish legislator built market mecanisms into the unemployment insurance system and the pension system. The two market mecanisms were designed to make trade unions with high unemployment show restraint in collective wage bargaining and to make elderly people chose two postpone retirement. The aim of the legislation was to make the opposite choice costly. The chapter discusses the benefits and problems involved in using market mechanisms to acheive a certain goal, compared to norm oriented legal solutions for instance forbidding persons to retire before a certain age.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

161-184

Publication/Series

Normative Patterns and legal development in the social dimension of the EU.

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Hart Publishing Ltd

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • pension
  • retirement age
  • unemployment insurance
  • social insurance
  • social security
  • market
  • collective bargaining
  • socialrätt
  • social welfare law

Status

Published

Project

  • Elder Law within the Norma Research Programme

Research group

  • Norma
  • Norma Research Programme

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-84946-435-2