Crowdfunding ist ein mächtiges Instrument um online Geld zu sammeln. Besonders in prosozialen Kontexten kann Crowdfunding als relevante Alternative zu Fundraising-Aktivitäten von Non-Profit-Organisationen und Stiftungen gesehen werden. Der öffentliche Zugang und die unkomplizierte Handhabung,...

The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...

This paper analyses the distributional impact of high consumer inflation in the euro area and government measures to compensate households in 2022. The study uses the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EUROMOD) with microdata as the input - EU statistics on income and...

Die Handreichung zum UckerWarentakt informiert über einen konkreten Ansatz aus dem Bereich der sozialen Logistik. Der Ansatz wurde im Landkreis Uckermark entwickelt und erprobt. Die Handreichung erläutert das Vorgehen und die Ergebnisse. Sie macht zudem Vorschläge für Erweiterungen bzw....

In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim to identify the main drivers of this rise in income inequality since the early 1990s. We provide a broad overview of the circumstances under which inequality evolved, i.e. which...

This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self-reported attitudes. Using unusually long and frequent...

Objectives: A clinical dashboard is a data-driven clinical decision support tool visualizing mul-tiple key performance indicators in a single report while minimizing time and effort for data gat-hering. Evidence showed that including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical...

Background: Compulsory healthcare insurance in Switzerland entails a deductible system for cost-sharing between insurer and insuree up to a chosen deductible1. No study has so far tested the presence of price sensitivity for healthcare resources consumption after exceeding one's chosen...

This Policy Note reports on the analyses undertaken in a number of wiiw Working Papers that are the output of two projects financed by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (Project no. 18474 and no. 17166). Four of the papers are based on survey data from the FIMAS dataset, which...

Die Diskussionen zur Krankenhausreform in Deutschland, die mit den Veröffentlichungen der Regierungskommission Ende 2022 starteten, sind nunmehr durch den eingeläuteten Gesetzgebungsprozess (Krankenhaustransparenzgesetz bzw. Krankenhausversorgungsverbesserungsgesetz) in formale Bahnen gelenkt...