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Social Health Insurance: the major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy?
Hagist, Christian; Klusen, Norbert; Plate, Andreas; … - 2005
During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296858
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Competition in Social Health Insurance: A Three-Country Comparison
Greß, Stefan - 2004
The objectives guiding health care reforms in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands were to increase efficiency and consumer satisfaction in the provision of health care services. This paper sums up incentives and instruments of competition for consumers, sickness funds and health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296988
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Wettbewerb der Steuersysteme in Europa - eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der Region Oberrheingraben unter Einbeziehung aktueller Reformvorschläge
Eckerle, Tobias H. - 1997
Oberrheingraben und die dahinter stehenden Steuersysteme Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Schweiz zu untersuchen und zu überprüfen … Schweiz durchweg am geringsten ist. Betrachtet man die Steuerbelastung auf Unternehmensebene, so werden deutsche … der Region überall weitgehend das gleiche Niveau aufweist. Dagegen können in Frankreich und der Schweiz je nach Gemeinde …
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External Costs of Road, Rail and Air Transport - a Bottom-Up Approach
Weinreich, Sigurd; Rennings, Klaus; Schlomann, Barbara; … - 1998
This paper aims to describe the calculation of environmental and health externalities caused by air pollutants, accidents and noise from different transport modes (road, rail, air) on the route Frankfurt-Milan. The investigation is part of the QUITS project (QUITS = Quality Indicators for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297574
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297743
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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298128
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Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: Six european countries compared
Kriesi, Hanspeter; Grande, Edgar; Lachat, Romain; … - 2005
In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299200
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Prospects for a European welfare state: Lessons from welfare state development in six OECD-Federations
Obinger, Herbert; Leibfried, Stephan; Castles, Francis G. - 2005
This paper uses the findings of a very recent major international research collaboration on the impact of federal arrangements on the development of the welfare state to explore the possibilities of progress beyond Europe's present diversity of nation-state welfare standards. These findings -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299202
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Education policy networks in a comparative perspective: Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain and New Zealand
Nagel, Alexander-Kenneth; Knodel, Philipp - 2009
- Deutschland, Schweiz, Großbritannien und Neuseeland - vergleichend analysiert. Anhand der Befunde lässt sich eine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299484