EIRP Proceedings, Vol 2 (2007)

Abstract

The analysis of different trajectories of reform in the old and new member states of European Union
help us define the main characteristics of pension systems in the beginnings of XXI century.
Is expected that private companies role will grow in the country of different families. Despite the
existence of commune challenges, pension institutions are influenced by past choices. Institutions inherited from
the past are constrained by ruling factors and contributed also to marginal reform defining and even to radical
but still linked to traditional origins.
To describe this kind of process we used the term hybridization: new systems are the effect of different
institutions and objectives interaction. Proposed classification is based on actual pension system, but that can
easily change in the future. In special way for new member states of European Union, reformed system
implementation is still in deployment, and actual interaction between piles can change in the next years.