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Recent trends in minimum income protection for Europe's elderly: discussion paper
- Author:
- GOEDEME Tim
- Publisher:
- University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- Amsterdam
In spite of differences in European pension systems, at least some regulation can be found in every European Union member state which guarantees a minimum income for older people. This paper reviews existing minimum income policies for the elderly in Europe, building on data from a project involving national experts from 25 member states, and explores whether minimum income benefit levels are sufficient for avoiding poverty in old age. It looks at different types of minimum income guarantees targeted at older people, including entitlement criteria (whether access is dependent on past contributions or not and the type of means testing which is applied) and types of contributory and non-contributory pensions. It discusses European variation in the availability of minimum income protection schemes, trends and levels of non-contributory minimum income benefits, and the adequacy of minimum income packages.
Fixed laws, fluid lives: the citizenship status of post-retirement migrants in the European Union
- Authors:
- ACKERS Louise, DWYER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 24(3), May 2004, pp.451-475.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Presents key findings of a recently completed socio-legal study of international retirement migration in the European Union (EU). It highlights the diverse nature of retirement migration and the differential citizenship status that is formally granted to various groups of retired migrants. ‘Citizenship of the European Union’ (Articles 17–22 of the Treaty establishing the European Community) bestows important social and political rights on nationals of EU Member States (‘Community nationals’). These rights are not, however, universal or based on nationality as such. In practice, the residency and social rights that a mobile EU national can claim in another Member State depend on the type of social contribution they have made and their personal relationships. The rights of people (and members of their family) who move following retirement in their home country differ substantially from those who retire following a period of working in another Member State (and achieve the status of ‘community migrant worker’ prior to retirement). This formal ‘discrimination’ is further compounded by the diversity of the social welfare systems of the member states that results in distinct social, economic and spatial inequalities across the EU.
The minimum wage and social assistance in the member states of the European Union
- Author:
- STROPNIK Nada
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 8(1), 2001, pp.35-51.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
This article offers a comparative overview of the legal regulation of the minimum wage in the European Union. The author provides and analyses data on the following elements of the right to social assistance in member countries of the European Union: persons who have the right to social assistance in connection with their citizenship, residence, age, etc.; revenues which are taken into account when determining the amount of social assistance; the application of the principle of subsidiarity in determining the right to social assistance; the manner of establishing the basic amount of the minimum wage; the duration of the right to social assistance; the valorisation of the guaranteed minimum wage; the connection between the right to financial assistance and the measures of an active employment policy; other rights associated with the guarantee of a minimum wage; and social care for the elderly and social care for single parents.
Social protection for dependency in old age: a study of the fifteen EU member states and Norway
- Authors:
- PACOLET Jozef, et al
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 337p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book explores the results of a European comparative study organized in 1997–98 by the Higher Institute for Labour Studies on behalf of the European Commission and the Belgian government. The study investigated the social protection arrangements for the elderly in the fifteen member states of the EU and Norway. In addition to providing an up-to-date overview of the systems of social protection for the elderly across the fifteen EU states, this book also presents a comparative analysis of the residential, semi-residential and community services available. The study is complemented by a discussion of the debates surrounding policy reform of the social protection system of dependent older persons, and particular attention is given to the topic of long-term care insurance.
A crisis in care: the future of family and state care for older people in the European Union
- Authors:
- McGLONE Francis, CRONIN Natalie
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 52p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report investigating Europe's looming crisis in care for older people. Argues that family and state care is in decline at the very moment when the number of people needing such care is increasing. Looks at disability and dependency; family care; the pressures of caring; support for carers in the European Union; the changing ability of the family to care; changing attitudes towards care; and European social policy. Also contains a chapter comparing social provision in the EC member states.