Social insurance and other arrangements for funding health-care benefits often establish long-term relationships, effectively providing insurance against lasting changes in an individual's health status, engaging in burden-smoothing over the life cycle, and entailing additional elements of...

Thanks to the reform process between 1992 and 2007, Germany was in a very good position to master demographic change. These reforms were farsighted, they stabilised the public pension system and they significantly increased employment, the foundation of every old age provision. The “Pension...

Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund eines Katalogs von Zielsetzungen, die mit familienpolitischen Maßnahmen innerhalb des Wertesystems und Ordnungsrahmens einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaftsordnung generell verfolgt werden können, analysiert der Beitrag die Wirkungen der Anfang 1996 vollzogenen...