Population ageing combined with a shrinking potential workforce are main factors influencing future socio-economic development and the labour market. This paper has the objective to show the impact of population change on one important sector of the economy, the health care market. As the need...

This paper aims to show the impact of societal change on the demand and supply of long-term care workforce. As age is the major driver of the need for care the growth in the number of elderly and oldest old will increase the demand for long-term care workforce. Caregiving to the elderly is...

1980s in Germany, Britain, France and Italy suggests a convergent and consistent process of homogenisation driven chiefly by institutional mimetic isomorphism. This new 'organisational settlement' is increasingly shaped by the structural autonomisation of individual service delivery units. This...

Im Prozeß der europäischen Einigung wächst der Bedarf an Informationen über die institutionelle Gestaltung von gesellschaftlichen Teilsystemen. Dieser Band stellt die Gesundheitssysteme von fünf westeuropäischen Ländern nach einheitlichen Kategorien dar und arbeitet strukturelle...