Practice question · True or false
Bismarck’s social insurance tied entitlement to a person’s employment record, while Beveridge proposed covering the whole population regardless of contributions.
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- Ask what each design does with someone who has never held a job.
- One design is contributory and occupational; the other is universal.
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True
Why
True, and the difference still divides European systems. A contributory design rewards a continuous work record and reproduces labour-market inequalities in retirement; a universal design does not, which is why the two produce such different outcomes for people with interrupted careers, most of them women.
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