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https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v14i2.698

The Croatian Pension System: Origins, Evolution and Perspectives

Vlado Puljiz ; Studijski centar socijalnog rada, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu


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str. 163-192

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In the first part of the paper, the author deals with the beginnings of the Croatian pension system, tracing it to the pensions of soldiers and civil servants, guild coffers that emerged in the 19th century, and the pension insurance of the employees of the first Croatian banks in the beginning of the 20th century. Following World War I, the Act on Social Insurance of Workers was adopted in the Yugoslav Monarchy in 1922, regulating pension insurance of workers. However, this law was not applied until 1937.

Pension insurance and other forms of social insurance have been systematically introduced after World War II. From the institutional and financial standpoint, pension insurance was gradually decentralised and transferred to the competence of Republics of that period.

The crisis of the pension system, already present in the end of the socialist period, was further deepened during the Homeland War and post-socialist transition. It was primarily reflected in the problems related to financing pension systems and the drop of the pension levels.

Towards the end of the 1990s, a so-called small, parametric reform was conducted, rationalising the existing pension system. In 2002, a partial capitalization of reforms was initiated, which meant the radical change of the pension system. Pension reform, connected with the changes in society, caused new problems in the first pillar of intergenerational solidarity. After the “debt to pensioners” that was made in the first half of the 1990s, and which is gradually being paid back, the current problem are so-called “new pensioners”, who have entered retirement after 1999, and whose pension income is increasingly lagging behind income of those who have entered retirement beforehand.

The author points out that the future development of the pension system will be largely determined by the economic development, particularly by growth of employment. He also predicts that Croatia will correct the existing pension system through the change of some of its parameters, (such as the retirement age), while also reconstructing its institutional structure, primarily through the introduction of basic pensions.

Ključne riječi

pension system; history of pension system; pension system indicators; pension system crisis; pension reform; perspectives of the pension system; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

30322

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/30322

Datum izdavanja:

30.5.2007.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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