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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Economics of Social Security

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0423/01
Abbreviation ESZ
Course title Economics of Social Security
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator PhDr. Mgr. Hana Fachinelli, Ph.D.

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

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.

Advised 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 .