Workload: 40 hours per week
Faculty: Wolfgang Scholz, Dr. Krzysztof Hagemejer, International Labour Organisation
Assessment: Presentations, assignments, written exam
 

Content and objectives
One of the major reasons why social protection has been regarded previously as an obstacle to employment growth is that governance seriously mismanaged the finances of social protection systems that were initially well designed. One prerequisite for developing a system of governance for the social sector is to know what the present overall level of expenditure is, where money is spent, which needs remain unmet, and how the overall national social expenditure, as well as the financial burden for the different financers of the system (employers, workers and government), develop under different economic scenarios and different reform options. In providing students with clear social accounting and meaningful projection systems, this course offers one of the essential factual bases for national social policy.


Literature

• Scholz, Wolfgang; Cichon, Michael; Hagemejer, Krzysztof (2000), Social Budgeting, Geneva: ILOA/ISS
• ILO (2005), Social Security Inquiry, First Inquiry, 2005, Manual, ILO, Geneva
• IMF (2001), Government finance statistics manual, Washington: IMF: Chapter 2 (with Annex on social protection), Chapter 3, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Appendix 4.
• Jones, Charles I.: Introduction to Economic Growth. Second Edition. W. W. Norton & Company, New York London, 2002.
• SNA 93, pp. xxxvii-il, 1-15, 87-112, 147-152, 157-182, 183-202, 203-216, 217-239, 379-406.
• Statistical Office of the European Communities EUROSTAT (1996), ESSPROSS Manual, Brussels, Luxembourg.