Do Bilateral Social Security Agreements Deliver on the Portability of Pensions and Health Care Benefits? : A Summary Policy Paper on Four Migration Corridors between EU and Non-EU Member States

Holzmann, Robert

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE;    EQUAL OPPORTUNITY;    LABOR MIGRANTS;    RISKS;    LABOR FLOW;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This policy paper summarizes fourcorridor studies on bilateral social security agreements(BSSAs) between four European Union (EU) member and twonon-member states, draws conclusions on their results, andoffers recommendations. BSSAs between migrant-sending andmigrant-receiving countries are seen as the most importantinstrument to establish portability of social securitybenefits for internationally mobile workers. Yet, only about23 percent of international migrants profit from BSSAs andtheir functioning has been little analyzed and even lessassessed. The four corridors studied (Austria-Turkey,Germany-Turkey, Belgium-Morocco, and France-Morocco) wereselected to allow for comparison of both similarities anddifferences in experiences. The evaluation of thesecorridors’ BSSAs was undertaken against a methodologicalframework and three selected criteria: fairness forindividuals, fiscal fairness for countries, and bureaucraticeffectiveness for countries and migrant workers. The resultssuggest that the investigated BSSAs work and overall deliverreasonably well on individual fairness. The results onfiscal fairness are clouded by conceptual and empiricalgaps. Bureaucratic effectiveness would profit frominformation and communication technology-based exchanges onboth corridors once available.