Background: Individuals experiencing osteoarthritis (OA) pain can pose significant costs for
governments due to reduced work activity in these individuals and increasing reliance on …

Conflicts between generations are a part of the history and mythology of modern societies.
The social explosion of the 1960s has become the major reference point, but it was …

The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th
century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease …

Die globalen gesundheitlichen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Corona-
Pandemie haben zur Folge, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft von einem der stärksten …

The issue of fiscal sustainability is often labelled as a synonym for intergenerational fairness;
however, pay-as-you-go schemes such as the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book focuses on detailed empirical work to address key questions …

This chapter focuses on inter-and intra-cohort inequalities of living standards in a
comparative perspective, and underlines the diversity of national responses to the …

We consider a government that can only raise funds by levying distortionary taxes. We allow
the government to collect taxes in a given period that are based on incomes earned in …

Based on an empirical application for Germany, we compare two methods of measuring
fiscal sustainability: the generational-accounting approach and the OECD method. In a first …