1999 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Transforming Social Security: Pensions in Central-Eastern Europe
Authors : Katharina Müller, Andreas Ryll, Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Published in: Transformation of Social Security: Pensions in Central-Eastern Europe
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In the past decade, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have witnessed sweeping changes in their economies and societies. Compared with this, the area of social security has long remained exempt from structural change, with the exception of the introduction of unemployment benefits - a reaction to open unemployment, so far unknown in Central and Eastern Europe (cf. Götting 1996).