Wenn Arbeitskräfte in Österreich krankheitsbedingt ihre Erwerbstätigkeit beenden oder den Ruhestand antreten, gehen dem oftmals mehrjährige Krankheitsgeschehnisse voran. Indikatoren wie die Inanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsdienstleistungen, die Zahl der verordneten Heilmittel, der Arztbesuche,...

Die letzte Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hatte in vielen Ländern ihren Ursprung auf den Immobilienmärkten. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Konsequenzen liberalisierter Wohnungsmärkte untersucht. Dabei wird zuerst gezeigt, dass ein theoretischer Blick auf die Eigenheiten der Wohnungsmärkte...

In the six years before dependently employed persons retire on an (occupational) invalidity pension they typically consult doctors more frequently, are prescribed more medication more often and tend to stay in hospital more frequently. In order to pick up early warning signs and possibly prevent...

Social policy measures and the social security systems in the EU stabilised GDP and employment noticeably during the recent financial and economic crisis. In terms of their size automatic stabilisers were particularly important. Discretionary social policy measures aiming at the stabilisation of...

Social policy measures and the social systems markedly mitigated the effects of the severe financial and economic crisis in 2009 and 2010. The largest contribution to the stabilisation resulted from the automatic stabilisers, whose effects vary between countries. On the revenue side they are...

We estimate non-cash income from owner occupied housing, subsidized rental housing, or free use of one's main residence and evaluate their impact on the unconditional distribution of household income and selected inequality measures. We confirm the standard finding in the literature that imputed...