Viešojo sektoriaus ekonomikos magistro baigiamojo darbo tema yra aktuali, kadangi darbe nagrinėjama Lietuvos valstybinių pensijų sistema. Pensijų sistema – tai vienas iš socialinės apsaugos elementų. Socialinis draudimas yra pagrindinis institutas, apsaugantis pilietį rinkos ekonomikos sąlygomis. Prieš penkis metus Lietuvoje pradėta įgyvendinti valstybinio socialinio draudimo pensijų sistemos reforma. Ši reforma reiškia dalinį valstybinio socialinio draudimo pensijų sistemos privatizavimą. Šis žingsnis susilaukė ir kritikos ir pritarimo. Lietuvos mokslininkai, atlikę skaičiavimus ir statistinius tyrimus labai kritikavo ir tebekritikuoja atliktą reformą. Pasak juos, reformuota pensijų sistema nėra teisinga, daugiausia nuo jos nukentės dabartiniai pensininkai, bei vyresni dabartiniai darbuotojai, nepatenkantys į sistemą (Gylys, 2002). Atlikti tyrimai parodė, kad valstybinio socialinio draudimo pensijų sistema sukuria didesnį socialinį saugumą, nei privačių pensijų sistemos (Bitinas, 2008). Beje Lietuvoje privačios pensijų sistemos kuriamos valstybinio socialinio draudimo pensijų sąskaita. Įgyvendinus pensijų reformą, turi būti nagrinėjama, kokį socialinį poveikį pensijų sistema turės ateityje. Pensijų sistema turi būti valdoma siekiant socialinio teisingumo. Laisvosios rinkos instituto ekspertai pritaria pensijų sistemos privatizavimui, jie teigia, kad norint išgelbėti žmonių pensijas, o ne dabartinę socialinio draudimo sistemą, reikia esminių reformų, kurių galutinis tikslas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Public Sector Economics Master's final thesis topic is of interest because we consider the Lithuanian state pension system. Pension system - is one of the elements of social protection. Social security is the basic institution which protects the national market economy. Five years ago Lithuania was launched in the state social insurance pension system reform. This reform is part of the state social insurance pension system privatization. This step and the context of criticism and support. Lithuanian scientists perform calculations and statistical analysis is very critical and critical carried out the reform. According to the reformed pension system is not fair, they will suffer most from the current retirees and older workers today, outside the system (Gylys, 2002). Studies have shown that the state social insurance pension system creates greater social security or private pension systems (Bitinas, 2008). By the way Lithuania private pension system developed state social insurance pension account. The implementation of pension reform should address the question of the social impact of the pension system will in the future. Pension system should be managed in the interest of social justice. Free Market Institute, experts agree the privatization of the pension system, they argue that in order to save people's pensions, rather than the current Social Security system needs radical reform, with the ultimate aim of the mandatory state social insurance waiver. However, the social... [to full text]

Background: The high levels of sickness absence and disability pensioning experienced during the 1990's and 2000's have become both socially as well as financially burdensome for society. Sickness absence implies a costly loss of production for society and large groups of individuals are risking to become marginalised on the labour market. Sickness absence is both a public health and an economic problem. Thus from both a human approach as well as from an economic perspective it is urgent to increase knowledge about what influences individual behaviour when it comes to sickness absence and return to work. Objectives: The overall aim of the thesis is to elucidate the decisive factors for explaining sickness absence. Three different aspects of sickness absence were considered, i.e. factors leading to sickness absence, factors preventing sickness absence and factors leading back to work ability and work when being sickness absent. This is done using a frame of reference involving broadly defined areas of work, health and social insurance related factors. Material and methods: Study I analyzes the outcome of unemployed sick-listed individuals. A total of 280 individuals from the county of Värmland were followed through register data between the years 2000 to 2001. Linear and logistic regression models were used to analyze the occurrence of short and long term economic incentives. Study II has a longitudinal design and explores determinants of return to work. Sick-listed individuals with a stress-related psychiatric diagnosis from the county of Värmland were analyzed over a period of three years (2000-2003) using logistic regression. The data comprised 911 individuals. Study III is a cross-sectional study using questionnaire data from the county of Värmland from year 2004. A total of 3123 persons either working or being self employed were analyzed on determinants of work presence through logistic regression. Study IV had a cross-sectional design and used questionnaire data from five counties in central Sweden. The data, from 2004, comprised 10536 individuals being employed, i.e. not self-employed, and with self reported physical and mental medical conditions. Logistic regression was mainly used in the analysis and the focus was on risk factors for long term sickness absence. Study V comprises cross-sectional data retrieved at three separate occasions between 1991 and 1994. It includes 8839 individuals from five counties in western Sweden with sickness absence spells over 60 days. The data was analysed through bi-variate probit regression with a focus on effects of vocational rehabilitation on return to work. Results: The results from study I were interpreted as that both short and long term economic incentives matter for the outcome of sickness absence through the interaction of different insurance systems. The principal findings from study II was that age, gender and factors implying less favourable health characteristics and thereby lower work capacity, reduce probabilities of returning to work after long term sickness absence. Considering study III determinants of work presence were found to vary between sexes and whether the determinants were counteracting long or short term sickness absence. Factors interpreted as job control counteracted short term absence. Sense of coherence was found to be an important determinant of work presence for women. In study IV long term sickness absence was found to be related to the level of ill-health. Moreover it was concluded that work environment factors as job strain, job satisfaction, physical work environment were important factors for explaining sickness absence in a population with impaired health. The results from study V indicated that vocational rehabilitation is a potentially effective instrument for improving the individual's work ability and chances of return to work. That no signs of prioritizing selection of rehabilitation participants to those likely to return to work with or without rehabilitation measures, i.e. "managerial creaming", were found was also considered as important results. Conclusions: This thesis shows that we need different models and approaches to improve knowledge about the various aspects of sickness absence as entry into absence, return to work or into disability retirement. It also has the implications that sickness absence behaviour can be influenced. Largely depending on what long term path is chosen for welfare policy at the political level it should be acknowledged that other means, improving working conditions and promoting rehabilitation rather than reducing benefit levels and narrowing the eligibility criteria for the insurance benefits are at hand.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gizela Maria Bodi.pdf: 1032398 bytes, checksum: bd4ee49c317d436e6b6fac01c760a6b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-19 / This research has the scope of analyzing the informal work, very common in the current Brazilian scenario, into the current social insurance system, starting from the communicative conception of law. Indeed, the informality of employment relationship proves to be a major challenge for contemporary states, notably in the social insurance sphere, in which the exercise of paid work, by itself, is insufficient to the membership and to the consequent social protection of the members from this category. Considering that the informal work corresponds to the activity performed outside of the statutory rule, the chosen method of study was the logical and systematic examination, starting from the premise that the law is a system of communication, operationalized through verbal written language, as proposed by Paulo de Barros Carvalho. Thus, based on the idea of autopoiesis of law, in which law creates its own reality, separated and more restrictive than social reality, we seek to examine critically whether there is indeed dialogical interaction between the social insurance system and the social one, which echoes on the incidence of social insurance laws, especially the membership rule. Based on these premises, after examining the differential systems of low-income insured and the individual microentrepreneurs recent mechanisms of social insurance inclusion we will set out proposals to overcoming informality in the legal framework, considering not only a change on the evidence paradigm of gainful activity, but also an structural reformulation of the social insurance system, which is caused today on formal worker protection, based on the contingency risk of the activity. This circumstance leads also to reflection on the need of a new social pact in the country / A presente pesquisa tem por escopo a análise do trabalho informal, tão presente no cenário brasileiro atual, frente o sistema de previdência social em vigor, partindo-se da concepção comunicacional do Direito. Com efeito, a informalidade das relações de trabalho revela-se um dos principais desafios para os Estados Contemporâneos, notadamente na esfera previdenciária, em que o desempenho de atividade remunerada, por si só, é insuficiente à filiação e consequente proteção social dos integrantes dessa categoria. Considerando-se que o trabalho informal, em linhas gerais, corresponde à atividade desenvolvida à margem da regulamentação legal, foi eleito como método de estudo o exame lógico-sistemático do tema, partindo-se da premissa de que o Direito é um sistema comunicacional, somente se operacionalizando através da linguagem verbal escrita, tal como proposto por Paulo de Barros Carvalho. Assim, pautando-se na ideia de autopoiese do Direito, segundo a qual este cria a sua própria realidade, distinta e mais restrita que a social, busca-se analisar de forma crítica se há, efetivamente, interação dialógica entre os sistemas previdenciário e o social, o que repercute, em última análise, na incidência das normas jurídicas previdenciárias, especialmente a de filiação. Com base em tais premissas, após examinado o regime diferenciado dos segurados baixa renda e o especial dos microempreendedores individuais (MEI) - mecanismos recentes de inclusão previdenciária -, serão formuladas propostas de superação da informalidade, no âmbito jurídico, o que leva em conta não apenas a alteração dos meios de prova da atividade remunerada, mas também eventual reformulação estrutural do sistema de previdência social que, hoje, é voltado à proteção do trabalhador, com base no risco de contingência social da atividade desenvolvida. Tal circunstância leva, ainda, à reflexão sobre a necessidade de um novo pacto social no país

Magistro studijų baigiamajame darbe išanalizuotos ir įvertintos Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo valdybos valdymo reformos, iškelta vienos iš jų tikslo – užtikrinti efektyvesnį socialinio draudimo fondo biudžeto lėšų ir žmogiškųjų išteklių naudojimą – įgyvendinimo problema bei pateiktos rekomendacijos Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo valdybai ir Lietuvos Respublikos socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerijai. Pirmoje darbo dalyje tiriami valstybinio socialinio draudimo valdymo teoriniai aspektai: apibrėžiama socialinio draudimo samprata ir reikšmė, apibūdinama valdymo sistema ir jos funkcijos, analizuojami valdymo problemoms įtakos turintys veiksniai. Antroje dalyje atliekamas Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo valdybos valdymo reformų vertinimas: analizuojami valdymo reformų tikslai, apibūdinami ir įvertinami valdymo reformų etapai ir aptariami valdymo reformų rezultatai, palyginant juos tarpusavyje bei pateikiant Valstybinio socialinio draudimo fondo valdybos valdymo reformų SSGG analizę. / There are analysed and evaluated management reforms of the State Social Insurance Fund Board (“Sodra”) in this master‘s thesis. Also it is raised the problem of management reforms purpose implementation which is to ensure a more efficient usage of Social Insurance fund budget assets and human recourses. Finally, recommendations for the State Social Insurance Fund Board and the Ministry of Social Security and Labour are presented. The first part explores State Social Insurance theoretical aspects of management. The concept and the meaning of social insurance are defined, the management system and it’s functions are described, also the factors affecting the management problems are analysed. In the second part the management reforms of the “Sodra” are evaluated analyzing aims, describing and evaluating stages and discussing results. The results are compared. A SWOT analysis of management reforms in the State Social Insurance Fund Board is presented as well.