National Social Insurance - not the whole picture Reference No.: ESS 2006:5

Public social insurance schemes are very important for people's security and are at the heart of debate on loss of income in the event of unemployment, illness, occupational injury, old age and parental leave. However, there are other insurance schemes besides social insurance. The benefits in agreements between the social partners are the most important, but they are not the only ones. In this report to the Expert Group on Economic Studies, Dr Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Professor Eskil Wadensjö, both active at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University, provide a general picture of how public social insurance schemes, agreement based benefits and other supplementary benefits relate to and interact with one another.