Resumen de The Greek Welfare State: A Tale of Reforms and Inequalities, 1951-2008
This paper adopts an economic and institutional history approach to depict the state of the Greek social insurance system in terms of occupational classification, prior to the adoption of the memorandums beginning in 2009. The crisis of social insurance was not new but quite an old story, plaguing Greece since the 1980s. Our analysis illustrates three fundamental issues that characterized the system for nearly sixty years (1951-2008): its continuous crisis since the 1980s; the substantial structural and organisational problems of the social insurance system and its component organisations; and the enormous inequalities in terms of spending (benefits in money and benefits in kind) between the various social insurance funds.
