Hyvinvointivaltion optimaalisen köyhyyspolitiikan määrittelyä

The purpose of this research is to identify the optimal poverty policy for a welfare state. Poverty is defined by income. Policies for reducing poverty are considered primary, and those for reducing inequality secondary. Poverty is seen as a function of the income transfer system within a welfare state. This research presents a method for optimising this function for the purposes of reducing poverty. It is also implemented in the representative population sample within the Income Distribution Data. SOMA simulation model is used. The iterative simulation process is continued until a level of poverty is reached at which improvements can no longer be made. Expenditures and taxes are kept in balance during the process. The result consists of two programmes. The first programme (social assistance programme) was formulated using five social assistance parameters, all of which dealt with the norms of social assistance for adults (€/month). In the second programme (basic benefits programme), in which social assistance was frozen at the legislative level of 2003, the parameter with the strongest poverty reduction effect turned out to be one of the basic unemployment allowances. This was followed by the norm of the national pension for a single person, two parameters related to housing allowance, and the norm for financial aid for students of higher education institutions. The most effective financing parameter measured by gini-coefficient in all programmes was the percent of capital taxation. Furthermore, these programmes can also be examined in relation to their costs. The social assistance programme is significantly cheaper than the basic benefits programme, and therefore with regard to poverty, the social assistance programme is more cost effective than the basic benefits programme. Therefore, public demand for raising the level of basic benefits does not seem to correspond to the most cost effective poverty policy. Raising basic benefits has most effect on reducing poverty within the group of people whose basic benefits are raised. Raising social assistance, on the other hand, seems to have a strong influence on the poverty of all population groups. The most significant outcome of this research is the development of a method through which a welfare state’s income transfer-based safety net, which has severely deteriorated in recent decades, might be mended. The only way of doing so involves either social assistance or some forms of basic benefits and supplementing these by modifying social assistance.

Tilasto Suomen työttömyysturvasta 2010

Tilasto Suomen työttömyysturvasta 2010 sisältää keskeiset tiedot työttömyyskassojen ja Kelan maksamasta työttömyysturvasta. Julkaisu tarjoaa tilastoja eri työttömyysturvaetuuksien saajista, maksetuista euromääristä sekä korvattujen päivien määristä.Julkaisu on tehty Vakuutusvalvontaviraston ja Kelan yhteistyönä. Vakuutusvalvontavirasto on tuottanut työttömyyskassojen työttömyysturvatilastot, Kelan luvuista vastaa Kelan aktuaari- ja tilasto-osaston tilastoryhmä.Tilasto ilmestyy osana Suomen virallista tilastoa (SVT). Se täyttää siten Suomen viralliselle tilastolle asetetut laatukriteerit.