Old Age Securtiy in the European Union

Research question/goal: 

The project proposal was developed in 1993 by Peter Flora in cooperation with Franz Kraus and Franz Rothenbacher. The major aim of the project is a systematic description and empirical analysis of the institutional configurations of old age security systems in the Member States of the European Union, their modes of financing and trends in the level and structure of old-age benefits. A second object is to use the project for a systematic development of the MZES European Library (including the statistics library) in the field of social security and to provide an overview of social security reporting systems of international organisations. With the appointment of Jürgen Kohl as a professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1995, the project was moved to the University of Heidelberg.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
MZES
Duration: 
1994 to 1997
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Aggregate data (time series), micro data (LIS) and qualitati
Geographic Space: 
EU

Publications

Books

Flora, Peter, and Heinz-Herbert Noll (Eds.) (1998): Sozialberichterstattung und Sozialstaatsbeobachtung. Individuelle Wohlfahrt und wohlfahrtsstaatliche Institutionen im Spiegel empirischer Analysen. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus. more
Flora, Peter, Franz Kraus, Heinz-Herbert Noll and Franz Rothenbacher (Eds.) (1994): Social Statistics and Social Reporting in and for Europe. Bonn, Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. [Europe in Comparison - A Series of Guidebooks for the Social Sciences; 1] more

Journal Articles

Flora, Peter (1997): A System of Socio-Economic Reporting on Europe. Memorandum for the Fifth Framework Programme of the EU. EURODATA Newsletter, issue 5, pp. 2-7. more

Book Chapters

Rieger, Elmar (1998): Soziologische Theorie und Sozialpolitik im entwickelten Wohlfahrtsstaat. Pp. 59-89 in: Stephan Lessenich, Ilona Ostner (Eds.) Welten des Wohlfahrtskapitalismus : der Sozialstaat in vergleichender Perspektive. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus-Verlag. more
Kohl, Jürgen (1995): Strukturreeform der Alterssicherung. Sozialpolitische Folgerungen aus einer international vergleichenden Analyse. Pp. 470-477 in: Heinz Sahner, Stefan Schwendtner (Eds.) Gesellschaften im Umbruch. Tagungsband des 27. Kongesses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Sektionen und Arbeitsgruppen. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. more
Kraus, Franz (1994): Social Statistics of the European Community (EC). Pp. 139-188 in: Peter Flora, Franz Kraus, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Franz Rothenbacher (Eds.) Social Statistics and Social Reporting in and for Europe. Bonn. more
Hebette, Chantal, and Franz Rothenbacher (1994): The European System of Social Protection Statistics - ESSPROS. Pp. 207-233 in: Peter Flora, Franz Kraus, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Franz Rothenbacher (Eds.) Social Statistics and Social Reporting in and for Europe. Bonn-Mannheim. more

MZES Working Papers

Rieger, Elmar, and Stephan Leibfried (1995): Globalization and the Western Welfare State. An Annotated Bibliography. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I, Bibliographie; 2] more
Kraus, Franz (1994): Social Statistics of the European Communitiy (EC). Mannheim [EURODATA; 3] more