Aufgrund der demografischen Entwicklung wird es in Zukunft zu einem Missverhältnis zwischen Arbeitsnachfrage und Arbeitsangebot kommen. Der Mangel an qualifizierten Arbeitskräften wird zu einem erhöhten arbeitsmarktlichen Wettbewerb führen. Die klassischen personalpolitischen Strategien...

Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...

There is a general consensus in considering the public financing for LTC as a suitable proxy of the resources committed to elderly care by each Government. But the preciseness of this approximation depends on the extent to which LTC is representative of elderly care within a country. We...

This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work...