As in most industrialized countries, the inequality regarding the distribution of household incomes in Germany has steadily increased. By collecting taxes and granting monetary transfers, the government tries to affect the personal distribution of incomes. Whereas the supply of redistribution is...

As in most industrialized countries, the inequality regarding the distribution of house-hold incomes in Germany has steadily increased. By collecting taxes and granting mon-etary transfers, the government tries to affect the personal distribution of incomes. Whereas the supply of redistribution...

Seit dem Krankenversicherungs-Kostendämpfungsgesetz von 1977 wurden 46 größere Gesetze mit über 6.800 Einzelregelungen erlassen mit dem Ziel, die Ausgabensteigerungen im Gesundheitswesen zu begrenzen und den Beitragssatz zu stabilisieren. Die gesetzlichen Eingriffe konnten den Ausgabentrend...

Um 2015 einen ausgeglichenen Haushalt zu erreichen, soll der Bundeszuschuss an die Krankenkassen gekürzt werden. Doris Pfeiffer, Vorsitzende des Vorstands des GKV-Spitzenverbands, sieht durch diesen Beschluss zwar keine unmittelbaren Beitragserhöhungen auf die gesetzlich Versicherten zukommen....

More than twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain, do citizens from former Communist countries still exhibit attitudes and preferences with regard to the welfare state and income redistribution that differ from those in the West? This paper seeks to answer this question for Germany after...

In many countries, policy makers try to increase quality and efficiency in the hospital sector by fostering competition. The German hospital market is a good example of this approach and the challenges that come with it. We focus on market concentration which is both a result of and a potential...

The paper analyses the relationship between health and education in a two period human capital framework. The resulting substitution and investment effects between health and advanced training work in opposite direction and leave open questions for the empirical part. As econometric model we use...