Summary The double ageing of the population leads to income redistribution from future to present generations as net payments to social health insurance are negative at young age and positive at old age. Economists arguing in favour of flat health insurance premiums combined with ageing...

The double ageing of the population leads to income redistribution from future to present generations as net payments to social health insurance are negative at young age and positive at old age. Economists arguing in favour of flat health insurance premiums combined with ageing provisions often...

Prof. Dr. Bernd Raffelhüschen, Stefan Fetzer und Christian Hagist, Universität Freiburg, untersuchen mit Hilfe der Generationenbilanzierung, welche Auswirkungen die aktuellen Vorschläge (nämlich Bürgerversicherung oder Gesundheitsprämien) zur Reform der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung,...

Since 2011 German health insurance funds have had to raise additional lump-sum contributions from members in case of insufficient allotment from the central health funds. The new German government plans to replace the lump-sum contributions with wage-related ones. Despite its contrary...

Based on an empirical application for Germany, we compare two methods of measuring fiscal sustainability: the generational-accounting approach and the OECD method. In a first step, we show that the two methods can be transformed into one another. Hence, the indicators of generational accounting...