This paper considers the impact of population aging on tax competition among states. The analysis presented here suggests that fiscal impacts associated with tax competition will be substantially larger once the baby boom generation retires

The ageing process in OECD countries calls for a better understanding of the future disease prevalence, life expectancy and patterns of inequalities in health outcomes. In this paper we present the results obtained from several dynamic microsimulation models of the Future Elderly Model (FEM)...

This paper provides new projections on the fiscal impact of age-related spending for OECD countries over the next half century. These results are based on national models using an agreed upon set of assumptions about macroeconomic and demographic developments for all countries. Recent reforms to...

This paper deals with the coverage of long-term care (LTC) in Germany since the post-war period. Until the 1990s, long-term care was mainly a task of the family with means-tested, tax-financed care assistance as a last resort. In 1994, after two decades of political debate, the German parliament...

Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption-saving paradox, increase in expenditure on...

The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...

This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of fictitious resumes that are sent to real vacancies, we randomly assign activities undertaken by...

Eckart Bomsdorf, Universität zu Köln, und Jörg Winkelhausen untersuchen die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2060 und bauen auf den Daten der Bevölkerung zum 31. Dezember 2011 auf. Ihre Ergebnisse weisen dar­auf hin, dass – selbst bei einem langfristig deutlichen...

Die demographische Entwicklung erzwingt auf der Ebene der Landespolitik erhebliche Ausgabenkürzungen: Zum einen dürften die öffentlichen Einnahmen aufgrund der Einwohnerbasierung des Länderfinanzausgleichs in den nächsten Jahren sinken und zum anderen sind Umschichtungen in den Haushalten...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...