Is the Financing of German Health and Long-Term Care Insurance Sustainable?

Abstract Based on a recent non-parametric estimation of the relationship between age, lifespan and health and long-term care expenditures in German social health insurance, we present a simulation of the future development of contribution rates in the two branches of the German social security syste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Friedrich Breyer, Normann Lorenz
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Springer 2020-08-01
Series:Wirtschaftsdienst
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-020-2716-1