Die Ausgabendämpfungspolitik der letzten zwanzig Jahre hat die Ursachen der Kostenexplosion nicht tangiert, daher ist der Beitragssatz in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung weiterhin kontinuierlich angestiegen. Als letztendliche Gründe für die Ausgabendynamik und zukünftige...

The article deals with the economic situation in the 14 largest cities of Germany using four Na-tional Accounts indicators to describe the economic power and the income situation of these cit-ies. Considerable differences between these cities as well as remarkable shifts in the ranking of the...

This note discusses the comparative dynamic analysis in "Fiscal competition in space and time" by David Wildasin (Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, 2003) from a technical point of view.

The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than reducing the number of people unemployed at any point...

We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased technical change with a sector bias and for endogenous commodity prices, we find that economic...

While the 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study assesses the average ability of German primary school students as being higher than average, the Programme for International Student Assessment studies (2000, 2003, 2006) ranks German secondary school students at a considerably...

In Germany, a thread to growth is perceived from demographic change. Demographic change means that a population is aging with the perspective of shrinking. The key question is whether an aging and shrinking population has enough talents to sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of...

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with continuous labor reallocation. Economic integration increases the home availability of technologies globally developed. The wider technology pool has implications for the vintage structure of the manufacturing sector and affects the revenues...

Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....