Transformation of Social Security: Pensions in Central-Eastern Europe: Contributions to Economics

Introduction: Transforming Social Security - Pensions in Central-Eastern Europe.- I. Transition and Social Security in Central-Eastern Europe.- Social Security - A Second Phase Transformation Phenomenon?.- The Transformation of Social Security in Central and Eastern Europe.- II. Issues and Role Models in the Pension Reform Debate.- The Controversy Between the Pay-As-You-Go System and the Fully-Funded System in Old-Age Security.- The Political Feasibility of Pension Reform in the Light of Demographic Change.- Pension Reforms in Germany: Major Topics, Decisions and Developments.- Paradigmatic Change in Old-Age Security - Latin American Cases.- III. Old-Age Security in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic: Institutional Legacy, Political Actors and Reform.- The Polish Pension System and its Problems.- The New Polish Pension Laws.- Political Actors and Reform Paradigms in Old-Age Security in Poland.- Hungarian Old-Age Security Prior to the 1998 Reform.- The New Hungarian Pension System and its Problems.- The Politics of the Hungarian Pension Reform.- Political Actors and Reform Paradigms in Czech Old-Age Security.- An Analysis of the Voluntary Pension Fund System in the Czech Republic.- IV. Central-Eastern European Pension Reforms in Comparison.- Distributional and Fiscal Consequences of Social Security Reforms in Central-Eastern Europe.- Structural Settings, Political Actors, and Paradigmatic Outcomes in Central-Eastern European Pension Reforms.