deSocial Security Systems in Agriculture
Project
Analyses of the social situation in agriculture and the future of agricultural social security
The agricultural social security system was subsidized with 3.7 billion Euros from the budget of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in 2014. That is 70 percent of the total budget of the ministry. We are studying the impact of the system as a central element of national agricultural policy and how it can be developed further.
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 analyze 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 the strucural impact of the farm transfer clause in the old age pension system for farmers and recommendations for further development and the long term perspectives for the agricultural social securuty system.
Thünen-Contact
Funding Body
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Federal Ministry of Food und Agriculture (BMEL)
(national, öffentlich)
Duration
Permanent task 1.2001
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Project status:
ongoing
Publications to the project
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- Mehl P (2005) Krankenversicherungen : größere Lasten für Aktive. DLG Mitt 120(1):26-27
- Mehl P (2005) Modernisierung oder Integration: Thesen zur Zukunft des agrarsozialen Sicherungssystems. Unabh Bauernstimme(280):4
- Mehl P (2005) Soziale Sicherung der Landwirte in Österreich - Modell für eine Reform des agrarsozialen Sicherungssystems in Deutschland? Soz Sicherh Landwirtsch(3):235-258
- Mehl P (2004) Das agrarsoziale Sicherungssystem : Situation - Akzeptanz - Handlungsbedarf. Ländl Raum (ASG) 55(2):10-15
- Mehl P (2004) Stellungnahme zu Artikel 3 Änderung des Zweiten Gesetzes über die Krankenversicherung der Landwirte (KVLG 1989) im Gesetzentwurf der Fraktionen SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: Entwurf eines Haushaltsbegleitgesetzes 2005 (Haushaltsbegleitgesetz 2005 - HBeglG 2005) BT-Drucksache 15/3442 aus Anlass der öffentlichen Anhörung des Haushaltsausschusses des Deutschen Bundestages : Berlin, 6. September 2004. Ausschussdrucks Dt Bundestag 1802
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