Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...

A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

The report discusses the formal long-term care workforce in Poland. It presents past and future trends in the development of LTC employment. Authors collected scattered statistical information, estimated lacking data and projected future growth in the number of employed in care services....

The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population. As part of this, a first research project...

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

Diese Studie liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Staatsausgabenstrukturen Österreichs im europäischen Vergleich anhand der COFOG-Daten ("Classification of the Functions of Government") von Eurostat. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt zum einen auf einer Einordnung der Staatsausgabenstrukturen...

In diesem Report werden Daten zum Stand der Krankenhausinfrastruktur in Deutschland - auch im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern - zusammengefasst und übersichtlich dargestellt. Dies erlaubt keine Aussagen darüber, ob überhaupt oder wann in der gegenwärtigen Situation damit zu rechnen ist, dass...

The development human capital is now recognized as being the most important precondition of economic growth in modern times. It should be a priority in our socio-economic policy. However, recognition of this fact alone will not produce a qualitative leap in the development of education,...