Die Schweizer Staatsquote steigt seit den 90er Jahren stark an. Der Wirtschaftstheorie folgend sollte sich der Staat jedoch auf seine Kernaktivitäten beschränken, um ein optimales Wirtschaftswachstum zu ermöglichen. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Höhe und die Entwicklung der grössten...

The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on...

Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and gross domestic product levels. Therefore, measuring efficiency and...

Parental leave is one of the essential social policies that are at the center of welfare state development and family policies of countries. The components of parental leave policies is twofold; a) duration component (parental leave period): job protected leave period as the number of weeks after...

In recent years, more than one out of every four dollars spent by the state of Illinois went to Medicaid and more than one out of five state residents got their healthcare through the program. The amount spent on the program and the number of people served have grown dramatically over the last...

The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is...