This article analyzes how institutional changes in the welfare state influence income mobility around job loss in the United States andWest Germany. Drawing both on an analysis of changes in provisions for the unemployed and on panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the...

The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...

Das stetig wachsende Durchschnittsalter der Bevölkerung sowie der technische Fortschritt setzen das Gesundheitswesen unter Druck. Um zu gewährleisten, dass jedem Bürger der Anspruch auf die medizinische Grundversorgung auch in Zukunft erhalten bleibt, müssen Kosten reduziert und Fehler im...