The Problem of Social Protection in Albania

• Authors: Arlinda Shkreli Axhemi , Gert Dragoshi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to analyze the social protection system in Albania during the last two decades. It highlights some of the problems and issues which are closely associated with elements of social security, as a phenomenon that focuses on finding solutions or solving the problems in social security systems in Albania. Of great importance are the changes in the social security legislation in recent years, which led to a new structure of the social insurance market in Albanian society. Also discussed are the types of benefits offered by our social insurance system. Our country occupies a special place in relation to the problems it has encountered with social protection and the social security law.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 39-53

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-04-30

Contributors

author

Arlinda Shkreli Axhemi

• University of Tirana

author

Gert Dragoshi

• University of Łódź, Faculty of Economics and Sociology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cer-2013-0003