Statul bunăstării după criza economică : între realitatea austerităţii şi necesitatea reformei

Abstract

In the context of the general dualization of the labour market, the labour market shows a specific segmentation. This is manifested not only in terms of occupational categories and branches of activity, but also in terms of job security, size and stability of income, social security contributions, opportunities for promotion, and the possibility of union membership. The division of the labor market into two "sectors" of the market produces the segmentation of welfare policies by creating dual social protection systems between typical and atypical workers, being a dimension of inequalities in social rights. In this paper, we analyzed the transposition of this segmentation into social security systems, more specifically we explored the precariousness of social protection in atypical work in the Romanian context. National social protection systems have been developed mainly to protect people in standard employment. This is particularly true for the social insurance system based on contributory benefits, i.e. on the collection of funds from future beneficiaries according to the amount of contribution. Thus, I aimed to highlight the disadvantages that atypical workers in Romania face in terms of the accumulation of social security contributions.