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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008
This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...
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The social long-term care insurance in Germany: origin, situation, threats, and perspectives
Heinicke, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010
This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of … long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar … within the system of social insurances in Germany and its set-up with regard to eligibility criteria, service provision and …
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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002
This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …
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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001
This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...
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Wie lässt sich die gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung mit Hilfe personengebundener Budgets reformieren?
Spermann, Alexander; Arntz, Melanie - 2003
Vor dem Hintergrund des steigenden Kostendrucks und eines Rekorddefizits der gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung von 400 … Mio. – in 2002 setzt die Rürup-Kommission in ihren Reformplänen für die gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung unter anderem auf …
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Soziale Experimente mit dem Pflegebudget (2004-2008): Konzeption des Evaluationsdesigns
Arntz, Melanie; Spermann, Alexander - 2004
In diesem Beitrag wird das Evaluationskonzept zu den geplanten sozialen Experimenten mit dem so genannten personengebundenen Budget (Pflegebudget) vorgestellt. Das Pflegebudget ist eine Geldleistung, die vom Pflegebedürftigen bzw. Pflegeangehörigen zum bedarfsgerechten Einkauf von...
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2004
. The results indicate that Germany and France have higher tax burdens than the UK and the USA, that Germany grants the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297384
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Empirical macromodels under test: a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Buslei, Hermann; Göggelmann, Klaus; … - 1998
In the paper we simulate a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate using five different types of macro- / microeconomic models, namely two models based on time-series data where the labour market is modelled basically demand oriented, two models of the class of computable...
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Demographische Effekte auf die zukünftigen Behandlungsausgaben und den zukünftigen Beitragssatz der GKV
Erbsland, Manfred - 1995
This paper analyses the pure demographic effect on medical expenditure and the contribution rate of the German Statutory Health Insurance Scheme. To isolate this effect, we assume that the age-specific expenditure for medical treatment as estimated in 1995 remains constant over the whole...
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After the Death of Inflation: Will Fiscal Drag Survive?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000
fiscal drag for OECD countries since 1965. Some considerations on the role of money illusion and indexation in this context …
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