International Social Security Review

Contributing to strengthening the ISSA’s knowledge base to better serve its member organizations, the five articles address priority topics fundamental to the development of social security worldwide.

The issue presents critical analysis and empirical evidence concerning policy options for extending affordable and tailored coverage to digital platform workers (Malaysia), incentivizing the return-to-work of unemployed workers (Malta), the innovative use of migrant workers’ remittances as an additional social security financing mechanism (Latin America), embedding and expanding social assistance to address poverty within a human rights-based framework that recognizes the necessity of a just social contract (Zimbabwe), and ensuring the sustainability and adequacy of multi-pillar pension systems in a context of population ageing and a secular decline in interest rates (The Netherlands).

Content:

·  Social insurance for gig workers: Insights from a discrete choice experiment in Malaysia
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Amanina Abdur Rahman and Alyssa Jasmin

·  The impact of Malta’s Tapering of Benefits scheme on employment outcomes

Kurt Sant

·  Reflections on government-led social assistance programmes under Zimbabwe’s National Social Protection Policy Framework: A social contract lens
Tomy Ncube and Una Murray

·  Reforming the Dutch pension system to ensure sustainability
Ed Westerhout, Eduard Ponds and Peter Zwaneveld

·  Remittance-financed social protection programmes for international migrant workers in Latin America
Cristina López-Cancio García