National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

The present research focuses on the influence of the well-being indicators, more specifically, the indicators reflecting the life quality on the banking systems evolution from the EU member states. The study offers a unique approach to comparing the two country groups: the eurozone countries and...

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

Dieses Buch liefert einen Überblick über die Strukturen des Gesundheitswesens im internationalen Vergleich. Der Überblick wird ergänzt durch Fallbeispiele zu den Gesundheitssystemen einiger Länder, die in Deutschland bei Reformen immer wieder herangezogen werden. Erklärt wird zudem die...