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https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v9i2.173
The Expected Trends in the Pension System of the Republic of Croatia in the Period up to 2040
Vlado Puljiz
; Studijski centar socijalnog rada, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
This paper is a part of the extensive text that defines the strategy of the pension system development, which is part of a wider study The Strategy of the Pension System and Social Care System Development made within the Government's project “Croatia in the 21 st Century”. The Government adopted that document in May 2002, and the Croatian Parliament discussed it in June 2002. The first part of the strategy of the pension system development discusses the current trends and the pension system crisis. The second part considers the establishment of the first, second and third pillar in accordance with the already initiated pension reform. Furthermore, the introduction of the basic national pension (the zero pillar) and the fourth pillar for the elderly and the infirm are anticipated and the levelling of the retirement age for men and women at the age of 65 by the year 2018 is also mentioned in the strategy. The second part of the document, which is published here, deals with the trends in the number of insured persons and retired persons, the share of pensions in the salary, the structure and trends of the average pension, the transition expenditure of the pension reform, the share and structure of the pension related expenditure in the GDP up to 2040. The following persons were members of the work group that had prepared the strategy of the pension system development: Prof. Željko Potočnjak, Ph.D. (group leader), Snježana Plevko, MS, Ljiljana Marušić, Ivan Jergović and Željko Tufekčić.
Keywords
pensions; pension reform; strategy; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
30100
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Publication date:
1.2.2002.
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