Social Security Issues: the Efficiency of the Latvian Pension System
Volume 5, Issue 2 (2015), pp. 285–296
Pub. online: 30 December 2015
Type: Article
Open Access
Published
30 December 2015
30 December 2015
Abstract
Pension system efficiency is very sensitive topic to every citizen of the country. It is very common to criticize established pension systems in search for better solutions. The authors in the present research paper attempt to find out whether the criticism is deserved by evaluating the efficiency of Latvian pension system from the future pensioner’s point of view in the context of the state pension financed from two sources: state pension and state funded pension. Additionally, the authors highlight a number of aspects of pension system the sustainability in Latvia. Private pension is not considered.