The interest in the health care system increased during the past few years significantly. Politics and society have to face changing structures. The duties, respons ibilities and compensations of providers of services in the health care system are of special interest in these considerations.To...

Das Interesse am Gesundheitswesen hat in den vergangenen Jahren erheblich zugenommen. Politik und Gesellschaft müssen sich einer Auseinandersetzung mit den Strukturen des Gesundheitswesens, insbesondere mit den Aufgaben und deren Vergütung, die von den verschiedenen Leistungsanbietern erbracht...

Das Interesse am Gesundheitswesen hat in den vergangenen Jahren erheblich zugenommen. Politik und Gesellschaft müssen sich einer Auseinandersetzung mit den Strukturen des Gesundheitswesens, insbesondere mit den Aufgaben und deren Vergütung, die von den verschiedenen Leistungsanbietern erbracht...

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...

The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will...

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...