This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in
place to either prevent or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation. Pieters
groups these policy issues into four major social risks -- income replacement in case of old
age and survivorship unemployment incapacity for work and social health care protection -
all of which are crucial to the development of a social security system. Navigating Social
Security Options draws on extensive knowledge of various national social security systems to
compare their costs and benefits taking into account both their structural elements
(conditions of work education and living) and cultural elements (influence of political
parties trade unions employers' organisations traditions). As a concise comparative point of
reference this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of social policy
and law as well as policy makers.
