Kvočáková, Lucia

The dissertation presented concerns the development trends in social security provision in the territory of the present-day independent states of the Czech and Slovak Republics, which, with only a short interruption in difficult Nazi occupation in World War II, made up the common state administration unit of Czechoslovakia, from 1918 to 1993. The dissertation continues tracing the evolution trends in the welfare system in each republic upon the dissolution of the federal state, and, finally, it focuses on the comparison of pension reforms implemented in both countries. Firstly, the developments in the legal regulations concerning social security schemes in the period preceding the First Czechoslovak Republic are studied. Both states were integral parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where a social reform was implemented in 1888 in its Austrian part, known also as Taaffe's Reform. It introduced mandatory public social insurance in three separate acts. The reform was inspired by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Reich. In 1918, after World War I, the Austro-Hungarian legislation was fully adopted by the newly formed Czechoslovakia and the burden of responsibility for all problems regarding the previous social security system assumed. Social security contributions in the period of the First...

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