
Gianni Geroldi
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The article is a summary of economic and financial trends of the social security system, retrospectively and in the long-term projections. What emerges confirms that the reforms have achieved important results in terms of financial sustainability. However, the loss of some key points of the original design of the 1995 reform, whose gradual implementation collided with stringent budgetary constraints, made more acute security issues for young people, women and disadvantaged workers. The measures of the last budget law, while taking steps to restore a little 'flexibility’ of the age of retirement, do not address the fundamental problem of redistributive mechanisms to reduce the risks of income and to protect the weakest workers
a strain on local welfare systems who have found themselves in the grip
of an increasing demand of protection and a much more stringent financial constraints. Accordingly, local administrations have initiated a series of experiments in the forms of intervention, expanding the weight
of non-public institutions (NGO, private suppliers, ...) while the role of local public administration has been changing from a direct presence as suppliers of services to a governance task. This paper, that is an introduction on this controversial topic, represents a synthesis of different problematic aspects illustrated in several essays published in a thematic issue of the Italian Journal of Social Policies
European legislation, introducing the new name of "services of general interest", has provided a number of important changes in the different sectors of traditional public services. For services usually provided by public utilities, the gradual market liberalization has led to a revision of the organizational and management systems in the direction of governance models more similar to those of private companies. In the field of social services, changes as the partial liberalization of the suppliers, the demand for greater citizen participation and more stringent budget constraints, require new governance capacity for maintaining coordination of differentiated measures and to ensure the policies addresses. The increasing number of activities and a highly complex articulation of the tasks requires that also welfare services focused on cash transfers upgrade strategies and management systems. In the Italian case, the presence of an almost unique institution that provides pensions, unemployment benefits, employment incentives and other welfare benefits, makes the latter an issue of particular importance.
The article is a summary of economic and financial trends of the social security system, retrospectively and in the long-term projections. What emerges confirms that the reforms have achieved important results in terms of financial sustainability. However, the loss of some key points of the original design of the 1995 reform, whose gradual implementation collided with stringent budgetary constraints, made more acute security issues for young people, women and disadvantaged workers. The measures of the last budget law, while taking steps to restore a little 'flexibility’ of the age of retirement, do not address the fundamental problem of redistributive mechanisms to reduce the risks of income and to protect the weakest workers
a strain on local welfare systems who have found themselves in the grip
of an increasing demand of protection and a much more stringent financial constraints. Accordingly, local administrations have initiated a series of experiments in the forms of intervention, expanding the weight
of non-public institutions (NGO, private suppliers, ...) while the role of local public administration has been changing from a direct presence as suppliers of services to a governance task. This paper, that is an introduction on this controversial topic, represents a synthesis of different problematic aspects illustrated in several essays published in a thematic issue of the Italian Journal of Social Policies
European legislation, introducing the new name of "services of general interest", has provided a number of important changes in the different sectors of traditional public services. For services usually provided by public utilities, the gradual market liberalization has led to a revision of the organizational and management systems in the direction of governance models more similar to those of private companies. In the field of social services, changes as the partial liberalization of the suppliers, the demand for greater citizen participation and more stringent budget constraints, require new governance capacity for maintaining coordination of differentiated measures and to ensure the policies addresses. The increasing number of activities and a highly complex articulation of the tasks requires that also welfare services focused on cash transfers upgrade strategies and management systems. In the Italian case, the presence of an almost unique institution that provides pensions, unemployment benefits, employment incentives and other welfare benefits, makes the latter an issue of particular importance.
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