Suchergebnisse

The selection of criteria is based on their suitability to reflect social policy results of different socially-economically developed EU countries. Lithuania can be attributed to the welfare states only if the absolute majority of the criteria reach or exceed the estimates of the average values of the EU countries. The research based on the criteria above is carried out in two stages. The first stage deals with the criteria that indicate if the socio-economic development of the country is moving towards a socially-oriented state. Such a development guarantees the most rational distribution of socio-economic resources in the development of a socially oriented country. At this stage, the analysis involves such indicators as income inequality, poverty, middle-class size. In the second stage such indicators as monthly average wages, social protection benefits and monthly old-age pension per capita as well as such indicators as GDP per capita, government spending on social protection as a percentage of GDP and unemployment rate are investigated. All these indicators in Lithuania are compared with average indicators in the EU. Findings of the research show that most indicators analyzed are far below the EU average. The country, therefore, can be attributed neither to socially-oriented countries (that is, countries that use their socio-economic resources in the most rational way in the process of welfare state formation), nor to the countries that have already developed one of the types of a welfare state. Lithuania is still in transition to a welfare state. Therefore, welfare state is irrational concept in Lithuania, which satisfies the object of analysis only by its form and not by content.

The selection of criteria is based on their suitability to reflect social policy results of different socially-economically developed EU countries. Lithuania can be attributed to the welfare states only if the absolute majority of the criteria reach or exceed the estimates of the average values of the EU countries. The research based on the criteria above is carried out in two stages. The first stage deals with the criteria that indicate if the socio-economic development of the country is moving towards a socially-oriented state. Such a development guarantees the most rational distribution of socio-economic resources in the development of a socially oriented country. At this stage, the analysis involves such indicators as income inequality, poverty, middle-class size. In the second stage such indicators as monthly average wages, social protection benefits and monthly old-age pension per capita as well as such indicators as GDP per capita, government spending on social protection as a percentage of GDP and unemployment rate are investigated. All these indicators in Lithuania are compared with average indicators in the EU. Findings of the research show that most indicators analyzed are far below the EU average. The country, therefore, can be attributed neither to socially-oriented countries (that is, countries that use their socio-economic resources in the most rational way in the process of welfare state formation), nor to the countries that have already developed one of the types of a welfare state. Lithuania is still in transition to a welfare state. Therefore, welfare state is irrational concept in Lithuania, which satisfies the object of analysis only by its form and not by content.

The selection of criteria is based on their suitability to reflect social policy results of different socially-economically developed EU countries. Lithuania can be attributed to the welfare states only if the absolute majority of the criteria reach or exceed the estimates of the average values of the EU countries. The research based on the criteria above is carried out in two stages. The first stage deals with the criteria that indicate if the socio-economic development of the country is moving towards a socially-oriented state. Such a development guarantees the most rational distribution of socio-economic resources in the development of a socially oriented country. At this stage, the analysis involves such indicators as income inequality, poverty, middle-class size. In the second stage such indicators as monthly average wages, social protection benefits and monthly old-age pension per capita as well as such indicators as GDP per capita, government spending on social protection as a percentage of GDP and unemployment rate are investigated. All these indicators in Lithuania are compared with average indicators in the EU. Findings of the research show that most indicators analyzed are far below the EU average. The country, therefore, can be attributed neither to socially-oriented countries (that is, countries that use their socio-economic resources in the most rational way in the process of welfare state formation), nor to the countries that have already developed one of the types of a welfare state. Lithuania is still in transition to a welfare state. Therefore, welfare state is irrational concept in Lithuania, which satisfies the object of analysis only by its form and not by content.

The selection of criteria is based on their suitability to reflect social policy results of different socially-economically developed EU countries. Lithuania can be attributed to the welfare states only if the absolute majority of the criteria reach or exceed the estimates of the average values of the EU countries. The research based on the criteria above is carried out in two stages. The first stage deals with the criteria that indicate if the socio-economic development of the country is moving towards a socially-oriented state. Such a development guarantees the most rational distribution of socio-economic resources in the development of a socially oriented country. At this stage, the analysis involves such indicators as income inequality, poverty, middle-class size. In the second stage such indicators as monthly average wages, social protection benefits and monthly old-age pension per capita as well as such indicators as GDP per capita, government spending on social protection as a percentage of GDP and unemployment rate are investigated. All these indicators in Lithuania are compared with average indicators in the EU. Findings of the research show that most indicators analyzed are far below the EU average. The country, therefore, can be attributed neither to socially-oriented countries (that is, countries that use their socio-economic resources in the most rational way in the process of welfare state formation), nor to the countries that have already developed one of the types of a welfare state. Lithuania is still in transition to a welfare state. Therefore, welfare state is irrational concept in Lithuania, which satisfies the object of analysis only by its form and not by content.