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Note mangelhaft: Die Bürgerpflegeversicherung

Häcker, Jasmin; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2005

Der dringend notwendige Reformierungsbedarf in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung hat in jüngster Zeit verschiedene … Mehrausgaben verbunden ist und im Rahmen der Bürgerversicherung eine im Vergleich zum Status quo der Pflegeversicherung verschärfte …

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Internal rates of return of the German statutory long-term care insurance

Häcker, Jasmin; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2005

Presuming an ageing population, every introduction of a pay-as-you-go scheme causes intergenerational redistribution in favor of the first generations and to the burden of young and future generations. Using the concept of internal rates of return we want to examine the extent to which the first...

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Soziale Sicherung zwischen Markt und Staat

Schmähl, Winfried (contributor) - 2000

Band behandelt, u. a. zum Gesundheitswesen (Krankenhaussektor, Pflegeversicherung), zur Alterssicherung, Familienpolitik …

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Public and private insurance with costly transactions

Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2010

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...

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Long-term care policy, myopia and redistribution

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012

This paper examines whether myopia (misperception of the long-term care (LTC) risk) and private insurance market loading costs can justify social LTC insurance and/or the subsidization of private insurance. We use a two-period model wherein individuals differ in three unobservable...

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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008

This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...

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The social long-term care insurance in Germany: origin, situation, threats, and perspectives

Heinicke, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010

This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of … long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar … within the system of social insurances in Germany and its set-up with regard to eligibility criteria, service provision and …

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The bequest tax as long-term care insurance

Brunner, Johann K. - 2012

I study a model of a representative individual who has a motive for leaving bequests and is at risk of needing long-term care in old age. I assume - as is typical for OECD countries - that the individual is not fully insured against this risk. Moreover, at realization the individual is unable to...

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The bequest tax as long-term care insurance

Brunner, Johann K. - 2012

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On the origins of the Franco-German EMU controversies

Maes, Ivo - 2002

postwar period, there were significant differences in ideas and economic policy-making in Germany and France. France was … dominated by the "tradition républicaine", giving a central role to the state in economic life. In Germany, the federal …

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