[PDF] Top 20 Statistics in Focus: Population and social conditions Social Protection in Europe 2004 6

... The share accounted for by general-government contributions increased faster than the European average in France, Italy and Portugal, but fell significantly in Denmark and the Netherland[r] ... See full document

... the population aged 60 or over in the EU-15 increased from ...ageing population) is partly explained by the fact that pensions increased at a faster rate than prices and by the increase in the average ... See full document

... 1990), social protection expenditure as a percentage of GDP fell to ...However, social protection expenditure as a percentage of GDP has remained stable in the EA-13, as well as in the EU-15 ... See full document

... THEME 3-15/2000 POPULATION AND LIVING CONDITIONS Figure 1 Contents Expenditure on social protection in EU-15 as % of GDP of 2 30 Expenditure on social protection: major differences betwe[r] ... See full document

... The differences are historical and due to the institutional reasoning behind social protection systems. Northern European countries, where government funding dominates, are steeped in the “Beveridgian” ... See full document

... With an increase in real terms of 4.2% per annum between 1998 and 2002 for the EU-15 as a whole, the sickness/health care function increased at a greater rate than the other functions over this period. Although health- ... See full document

... Some countries even recorded a fall in such expenditure as a result of regulatory measures taken by the Member States. Italy, the Netherlands and Austria are in this group. In the Netherlands, for example, the ... See full document

... Finland: Other expenditure on pensions is recorded under the heading "other periodic cash benefits" of the old-age function approximately 0.1% of GDP in 1998 and disability approximately[r] ... See full document

... Methods and concepts The data on social protection expenditure and receipts forthe 15 Member States of the European Union contained in this analysis have been calculated in accordance wi[r] ... See full document

... A significant rise, then stabilisation ...2 A slowdown in the growth of expenditure on social protection in real terms 2 Differences between countries are more marked when expenditure is[r] ... See full document

... The sickness/health care and disability functions together showed a more moderate growth rate than the average increase of 24% in total per capita benefits in real terms, so that the wei[r] ... See full document

... Financing social protection: during the 1990s the proportion of general government contributions increased while that of employers' social contributions decreased During the economic slo[r] ... See full document

... f J The "pensions" aggregate is the sum of seven different categories of benefits, as defined in the ESSPROS Manual 1996: disability pension, early-retirement benefit due to reduced capa[r] ... See full document

... Alt­ hough unemployment benefits represented only 6.6% of total benefit expenditure in 1989, their growth accounted for about a quarter of the increase recorded in total social protectio[r] ... See full document

... A quarter of employees work outside normal daytime hours during weekdays The length of the working week is just one characteristic of working conditions, but working time schedules also [r] ... See full document

... country where homo- or bisexual contacts remained the most important transmission category for all newly Mortality due to AIDS diagnosed cases through all years with data available.. The[r] ... See full document

... In this publication, the results for 1997­1999 are set out by typology, using hierarchical classification methods of age­specific mortality for the period 1994­1996 and a regional analys[r] ... See full document

... births Belgium Denmark Germany Greece Spain France Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Austria Portugal Finland Sweden United Kingdom Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Switzerland Czech Repu[r] ... See full document

... the population and the level of infrastructure available in each country in rural areas could be the main factors explaining these differences, while this question is not so relevant for densely populated ... See full document

... Contents Slowdown in 2000 in the growth in per-capita expenditure in real terms 2 Big differences from country to country in social-protection expenditure 2 Total benefits dominated by t[r] ... See full document