doğan, alper izmir kâtip çelebi üniversitesi - i.i.b.f. - maliye bölümü, turkey , kabayel, melih izmir kâtip çelebi üniversitesi - s.b.e. - maliye ve mali yönetim anabilim dalı, turkey

A Reflection on Social Security and Social Security Expenditures

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The term social security has emerged after the Industrial Revolution and it has become an important tool in providing the social and economic needs of societies following the second world war. In the post-war period, social security systems have further developed and social security expenditures have notably increased. Nevertheless, the financial problems that arose just after the 1973 Oil Shock have interrupted the boosting of social security expenditures and the evolution of social security systems. The subsequent depression has rendered a social security reform essential. Today, states address social security reforms in a sensitive way and they are more than willing to develop a social security system that encompasses the entire community and is self-financing. Yet, problems such as the exceedingly greater number of the elderly population and the rampant informal economy pose a great threat to the establishment and sustainability of social security systems in developed and developing countries. The study focuses on social security expenditures, differences in social security expenditures between countries and problems related with social security systems in developed and developing countries.

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social security , social security expenditures , prosperity , population structure , economy

Celal Bayar University Journal Of Social Sciences

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