Prof. Dr. Bernd Raffelhüschen, Stefan Fetzer und Christian Hagist, Universität Freiburg, untersuchen mit Hilfe der Generationenbilanzierung, welche Auswirkungen die aktuellen Vorschläge (nämlich Bürgerversicherung oder Gesundheitsprämien) zur Reform der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung,...

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...