In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a method to decompose Income Satisfaction ...
2003| Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard M. S. van Praag
This paper presents the financial effects of a transition from the pay-as-you-go to a capital funded health insurance system in Germany. The focus of the following article will be on the financial need in different settings which are given by the difference of the spending for health care and the insurance contributions with an upper limit of 15% of the underlying assessment basis. Calculations made ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
123 (2003), 2, S. 265-283
| Markus M. Grabka, Hanfried H. Andersen, Klaus-Dirk Henke, Katja Borchardt