In the previous post, I explained why I think Sweden is the best country in the world. https://steemit.com/sweden/@tada079/the-reason-why-a-japanese-man-deem-that-sweden-is-the-best-country-in-the-world
Today, I want to share some more fan facts with regard to pension system, child health care and education.
In Sweden, the more people earn money, the more they can receive the pension in the future. The pension is sort of a financial instrument that people are allowed to cancel the time deposit and use the money when they become old.
We can call it a very effective way of saving up money.
Self-employed people pay money for the fee of annuity insurance, depending on income they declare. This system has resulted in improving an incentive of declaring income correctly.
Only people who have lived in Sweden for 40 years can receive the full amount of the pension.
If the amount of the pension (for example) refugees receive is below the appropriate standard of living, its deficit will be supplied by the government as a welfare.
The finance of pension is designed as a system which cannot fail.
In case a recession lasts longer, the amount of pension which elderly people receive will be decreased.
(This point is also very different from Japan. The Japanese government had not changed anything for pension for decades. As a result of this, now we face a financial issue)
#Childhealthcare and #education
All the fees of these services are practically free. The services are provided by the country or self-governing bodies.
The same standard of living is assured for all of the citizens. As a result, the transfer of strata between generations is relatively big.
The income of parents and children does have a weak correlation. Therefore, even if your family is needy, next generation can become well off.
Regardless of sexuality, people can get a job which they would like to work for and the government has aimed to enhance childcare service and the system of childcare leave which can enable people to balance their work and family life.
Parents are able to raise children until they become 2 years old because of the childcare leave.
Swedish people believe that “the bond between parents and child should be made first, and then children should go to the external world.
Therefore, nursery for baby and 1 year old child isn't socially acceptable in Sweden.
This is also one of the biggest differences between Sweden and Japan because now the government promotes women to continue working even if their children are babies or not.
To be continued … (I will talk about Swedish higher education in the next post)
-Source-
Yumoto, K., Sato, Y. 2010. Sweden Paradox. Tokyo: Nikkei
https://studyinsweden.se/