Mit der Wahl des Generalthemas "Die Zukunft des Sozialstaats" hat sich der Vorstand des Vereins für Socialpolitik für die Jahrestagung 1998 in Rostock ein Programm vorgegeben, das nicht nur beziehungsreich für den Verein, sondern auch europaweit von besonderer Aktualität ist. Die Frage nach...

As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...

It is now a commonplace that the unfunded public pension systems of many OECD countries will run into severe financing problems in the coming decades due to a dramatically increasing pensioner/worker ratio. While this diagnosis is completely undisputed, there is still a vigorous debate on the...

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for either an extension of their life or an improvement in their health corresponding to a gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one...

Weltweit wird über Reformen der sozialen Sicherung diskutiert. Eines der zentralen Themen dabei ist, welche Aufgaben der Staat übernehmen und was privaten Akteuren überlassen bleiben soll. Dabei geht es nicht nur um den Umfang, sondern auch um die Art staatlicher Tätigkeit, z. B. durch...

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in various scenarios for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a gain of one quality-adjusted life year. While one version of the survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and...