The European national health systems - Bismarckian pay-as-you-go systems as well as Beveridge systems financed by taxes - are characterized by redistribution within and between generations. Both types are more or less similar in their mode of functioning and both bear inefficiencies in many...

Anhaltend niedrige Geburtenraten und eine steigende Lebenserwartung gehen nicht spurlos an der umlagefinanzierten Sozialversicherung vorüber. Gäbe es in den kommenden Jahrzehnten keinerlei Zuwanderung, die die Auswirkungen dieser Faktoren etwas abmildern kann, müssten in 2050 weniger als zwei...

The European national health systems - Bismarckian pay-as-you-go systems as well as Beveridge systems financed by taxes - are characterized by redistribution within and between generations. Both types are more or less similar in their mode of functioning and both bear inefficiencies in many...