Influence of the welfare state type on the pension system

Diploma thesis "Influence of the welfare state type on the pension system" deals with the way in which certain type of the welfare state influences settings of the individual parts of the social system, concretely pension system. The theoretical section deals with the classical theory of Gösta Esping-Andersen, who distinguished three basic types of welfare state: liberal, conservative and social-democratic, further reflection of his attitude and also new social risks. As representives of individual types of the welfare states were chosen Great Britain, Sweden and Germany. Author deals with analysis of pension systems of these countries and compares them on the basis of chosen criteria: demographic prospects, types of the pension systems, way of financing and public expenditures on the pension system. He tries to find out how the concrete type of the welfare state reflects in the specific settings of the pension systems in these countries. On the basic of this analysis, scholarly literature and the analysis of current situation in the Czech Republic (carried out among other things through the interviews with important actors) he tries to specify few recomendations for the Czech Republic, which prepares itself for a pension reform