[Einleitung] Die deutsche Sozialversicherung ist Gegenstand einer fortwährenden Diskussion sowohl in der ökonomischen Literatur als auch in der Politik. Dieser Diskussionsprozess hatte große Auswirkungen auf die Ausgestaltung des Systems der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV), welches...

[Introduction] Over the last few years there has been an increasing debate on supply security in the German healthcare system. In particular, concerns have been raised with respect to the shortage of pharmacies in rural regions. While the low level of demand for pharmaceutical services and...

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of...

Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie Stiftungen soziale Innovationen fördern können. Der erste Teil beschäftigt sich mit dem Organisationstyp der Stiftung, dem regulatorischen Umfeld und dominanten Strategien, die zur Zweckverwirklichung eingesetzt werden. Stiftungen wird das...

A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria,...

The public acceptability of a carbon price depends on how the revenues from carbon pricing are used. In a fully incentivised experiment with a large representative sample of the German population, we compare five different revenue recycling schemes and show that support for a carbon price is...

This paper uses quantitative and qualitative text analysis methods to study the discourse surrounding Germany's current account surplus across seven national newspapers. The results of the analysis highlight that the German surpluses are a contested discursive subject across the different...