This paper gives an overview of the German Social Long-term Care Insurance (Soziale Pflegeversicherung, SLTCI). In the current state, Germany provides a universal, non meanstested contribution-financed social…
In international comparison, German university graduates are elder on average when they enter the labor market. Apart from the longer duration time of study at university, one fundamental reason is the long…
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, the present paper studies whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions…
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se for a couple's risk of separation. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life…
