Social Security Systems in Agriculture

Background and Objective

The agricultural social security system is comprised of the pension fund for famers, the agricultural health and long term care insurance and agricultural accident insurance. The analysis of this system includes important information for policymakers, for instance how the system can be further developed. For this purpose we conduct EU-wide comparative analyses. Long term research and proven expertise are available for all questions related to agricultural social security.

Approach

We study the social security of farmers and the financial and distributional impact of the existing agricultural social scurity systems. We analyse and evaluate reform proposals and develop own recommendations. We also conduct EU-wide comparative research on the topic.

Data and Methods

Our analyses are based on statistics of the agricultural social security program and own research, which use, depending on the problem and questions, the broad spectrum of empirical social research methods.

Preliminary Results

Scientific studies dealing with the permanent research topic "social policy in agriculture" yielded a multiplicity of results for all branches of the agricultural social security systems. Current research topics are proposals and recommendations for further development and the long term perspectives for the agricultural social security system.