153-0423/01 – Economics of Social Security (ESZ)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Public EconomicsCredits4
Subject guarantorPhDr. Mgr. Hana Fachinelli, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorPhDr. Mgr. Hana Fachinelli, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year1Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2009/2010Year of cancellation2012/2013
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
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Part-time Credit and Examination 6+6

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

• analyse objectives, functions, economic and social effects of social security, including approaches to efficiency measurements • compare approaches to construction of social security programmes in advanced countries and identify the reasons of differences • assess approaches to construction of programmes and discuss advantages and disadvantages of chosen financial instruments • analyse the social security system in the Czech Republic • recommend measures to change administration and social security financing in the Czech Republic

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Summary

The theory and practice of social security system – social protection, frame of programmes, technics of financing, methodes of financing, assembly of benefits, problems of efficiency in social security.

Compulsory literature:

FACHINELLI, H. Ekonomika sociálního zabezpečení. VŠB-TU Ostrava, akt. a dopl. verze 2012. LMS. TROSTER, P. Právo sociálního zabezpečení. 5. přeprac. a akt. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2010. 379 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-322-6. Průběžná aktualizace a doplnění problematiky viz. přednášky.

Recommended literature:

BARR, Nicholas. The Economics of the Welfare State, 5th edition, Oxford University Press and Stanford University Press, 2012.ISBN 978-0-19-92981-8. PENNINGS, Frans. European Social Security Law. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2011. pp. 328. ISBN 978-90-4113-867-5.

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Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Conceptual definition, functions and objectives of social security 2. Efficiency in social security 3. Instruments to finance social security 4. Techniques of financing social security 5. Methods of financing social security 6. Financing plans in insurance 7. Economics and administration of social security 8. Concept and construction of old age security programs - approaches of OECD-EU countries, Czech republic 9. Concept and construction of health care programs - approaches of OECD-EU countries, Czech republic 10.Concept and construction of programs of social expenditures for families with children - approaches of OECD-EU countries, Czech republic 11.Concept and construction of unemployment security programs - approaches of OECD-EU countries, Czech republic 12. Concept and construction of material need security programs - approaches of OECD-EU countries, Czech republic 13. Concept and construction of social services programs - approaches of OECD-EU countries, Czech republic

Conditions for subject completion

Part-time form (validity from: 2009/2010 Winter semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)		Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Exercises evaluation Credit 40  21 3
        Examination Examination 60  11 3
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Occurrence in study plans

Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2012/2013 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration (02) Public Economics and Administration K Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2011/2012 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration (02) Public Economics and Administration K Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2010/2011 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration (02) Public Economics and Administration K Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2009/2010 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration (02) Public Economics and Administration K Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan

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Assessment of instruction



2012/2013 Winter
2011/2012 Winter
2009/2010 Winter