In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...

Der Pflegemarkt in Deutschland wies im Jahr 2007 ein Volumen von schätzungsweise 29 Milliarden Euro auf und leistete einen Beitrag zur Wertschöpfung in Höhe von rund 25 Milliarden Euro. Neben der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung (ca. 60 Prozent) werden die Kosten der Pflege vor allem von privaten...

Zum Jahresbeginn 2017 wurde mit der zweiten und dritten Stufe des Pflegestärkungsgesetzes nach langjähriger Diskussion die bisher umfassendste Reform der sozialen Pflegeversicherung umgesetzt. Stefan Greß und Klaus Stegmüller, Hochschule Fulda, sehen in der Neufassung des...

Das Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen ist von großer beschäftigungspolitischer Relevanz. Im Land Bremen arbeitet etwa jeder Neunte in diesem Bereich. Beschäftigte in der Pflege stellen dabei eine der größten Gruppen, der überwiegende Teil sind Frauen. Für die Zukunft wird ein Personal- und...

The remarkable growth of older population has moved long-term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda in the European Union. This paper addresses the issue of the longterm care in Lithuania, its philosophy, the legal and funding regularities, management issues and LTC policy. Its...

In the field of social protection, Poland belongs to the EU group of countries with the familybased welfare model, what is extremely visible for the long-term care where family is the main care provider for elderly individuals with limitations in activities of daily living. At the same time the...

Developing responsive to needs, efficient and sustainable long-term care systems for elderly becomes due to rising demographic pressures an urgent issue all over Europe. Czech Republic is among the countries that have redesigned long-term care system according the principles of accessibility,...

The increasing life expectancy and the alarming growth in the incidence of chronic illness make long term care services in high demand and in dire need of change and innovation. As part of the ANCIEN initiative, which aims to comprise a database of European approaches for dealing with long term...

The aim of this paper is to identify patterns of utilization of formal and informal long term care (LTC) across European countries and discuss possible determinants of demand for different types of care. Specific research questions are of the volume of different types of care and conditions...

Long-term care (LTC) in the new EU member states, which used to belong to the former socialist countries, is not yet a legally separated sector of social security. However, the ageing dynamics are more intensive in these states than in the old EU member states. This paper analyses the process of...