Bratislava to host the European Labour Authority
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, has been selected as the seat of the new European Labour Authority (ELA), which starts its operations in October 2019.
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, has been selected as the seat of the new European Labour Authority (ELA), which starts its operations in October 2019.
The trust in the pension system grew last year. If the financial sustainability of the pension system had to be improved, the most accepted measure would be to raise the pension contribution. The alternative of cutting pensions in payment or future pensions gained no support.
Jaakko Kiander has been appointed Director of Research, Statistics and Planning at the Finnish Centre for Pensions. Tuovi Rautjoki has been appointed Director of Communications.
What is the status of cross-border cooperation between European social security institutions today? Where are we heading from the point of view of European experts? These topics will be discussed at the MoveS seminar arranged in Helsinki, Finland, on 13 September.
The share of under-45-year-olds returning to work after rehabilitation grew by five percentage points during the three follow-up years. Seven out of ten were in working life three years after their rehabilitation ended, statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions shows.
The Finnish Centre for Pensions now publishes parallel publications (open access) of its research articles. This way, as many as possible can access our research results.
The adequacy of pensions gains in importance for the economic well-being of an ever-growing share of ageing Europeans. One of the keynote speakers, Rudi Van Dam (Chair of ISG), points out that the social security indicators have to be improved and made more multi-dimensional. The job is not easy, because the indicators are a politically …
The pension assets of the earnings-related pension scheme decreased in 2018 by 6.1 billion euros, amounting to 196 billion euros at year-end. The last time the pension assets decreased was in 2011, as a result of the euro crisis. Examine the money flows with the visualisation of the earnings-related pension money flows.
Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions grants a Pro Gradu Award to a distinguished Master’s thesis. This year, the award was granted to a thesis from the Tampere University on rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension system. The author of the winning thesis, Natalia Edelmann, has a clear vision: she wants to prevent discontinued rehabilitations.
One of the most distinguished experts on social indicators, Rudi Van Dam (Chair of the Indicators Subgroup ISG) is one of the keynote speakers at Pension Adequacy in Europe – Today and Tomorrow. The conference, a side event of Finland’s EU presidency, is organised in Helsinki on 17 September 2019 by the Finnish Centre for …
Finnish Centre for Pensions – Central body of and expert on statutory earnings-related pensions