Social security reform
(As percentage of GDP)

Baseline Social Protection Resource Requirements, 1994
Simulated Social Protection Resource Requirements under selected reforms
Payroll-tax-financed benefits
Payroll-tax-financed benefits
Payroll tax revenue
Total
Pensions
Unemployment benefits
Increased payroll compliance
Total
Reduced pensions
Increased unemployment
Baltic states
Estonia 4.8 9.2 8.2 1.0 5.2 7.3 6.2 1.1
Latvia 7.5 13.9 12.7 1.2 8.1 11.0 9.6 1.4
Other ex-USSR states
Armenia 4.1 5.5 4.9 0.6 4.4 4.4 3.7 0.7
Kyrgyzstan 5.6 6.1 5.6 0.6 6.0 4.9 4.2 0.7
Russia 3.9 6.3 5.6 0.7 4.2 4.9 4.1 0.8
Tajikistan 6.8 7.4 7.1 0.3 7.4 5.7 5.2 0.5
Ukraine 4.3 7.8 7.8 N/A 4.7 6.1 5.9 0.1
Eastern Europe
Albania 6.1 8.1 5.4 2.7 10.1 13.4 3.8 2.8
FYROM 9.4 16.7 12.4 4.3 10.1 13.4 8.8 4.6
Poland 5.7 11.6 9.1 2.5 6.1 9.5 6.9 2.7

Source: Ke-Young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, Social Protection in Transition Countries: Emerging Issues IMF Paper on Policy Analysis and Assessment 96/5 (May 1996)


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