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The paper develops and applies a Grossman-style health production model set up in discrete time to explain the impact of environmental pollution on the demand for both health and health care. In order to introduce the environment, our analysis takes changes in environmental conditions to...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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In der Gesundheitspolitik spielt der Beitragssatz in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung eine wichtige Rolle. Ein viel zitiertes Gutachten der PROGNOS AG, das vielen gesundheits- und sozialpolitischen Entscheidungen zugrunde liegt, prognostiziert einen Anstieg des durchschnittlichen...
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It is the purpose of this study to forecast the future development of total expenditures of sickness funds in Germany under the assumption that present institutions remain unchanged. Previous approaches using present age-specific expenditure data are systematically flawed. In contrast, we use...
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