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Article: The development of social benefits and social policy in Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic since the system transformation.
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- East European Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Social policy is generally understood in the social sciences as the counterpart of the economic policy. Its necessity as corrective of the market economy was respected by liberal economists like Friedrich A. Hayek (1960). It is therefore surprising that there have been very few investigations into the social policies of Central and East European states since the transformation. While the economic results of the process of transformation have been well-documented by numerous examinations of the results of privatization, financial consolidation or the implementation of new institutions and laws, research on social insurance systems and social policies tends to be the ...