The impast of the flexible forms of employment on pension risk Cover Image

Wpływ elastycznych form zatrudnienia na ryzyko emerytalne
The impast of the flexible forms of employment on pension risk

Author(s): Marek Benio
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie we współpracy z Wydawnictwem Naukowym Scholar
Keywords: social security; pensions; flexible forms of employment; flexicurity

Summary/Abstract: Th e dynamic changes in the labour market in the fi rst decade of the century have led to an increase in the number of people employed on the basis of civil law contracts and other fl exible forms of employment. The revenues from these contracts are excluded from the contribution assessment basis, including old age pension insurance. As a result, an increasing number of people receiving income and participating in the labour market may be socially excluded in their old age due to low pension assets. Th is article does not examine the social scale of the phenomenon. Instead, analyzing legal documents and using microsimulation of old age income security based on risk biographies, it aims at explaining the impact of fl exible employment on income security in old age. Th e analysis of the current mandatory social insurance coverage leads to the conclusion that fl exible forms of employment may cause an increase in negative economic and social eff ects of the old age risk. It does not provide a social safety net. In their conclusion, the author suggests some legal changes.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 16+17
  • Page Range: 81-89
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish