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Gone with the windfall – Germany's Second LTC Strengthening Act and its intergenerational implications

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  • Bahnsen, Lewe
  • Fetzer, Stefan
  • Franke, Fabian
  • Hagist, Christian

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  • Bahnsen, Lewe & Fetzer, Stefan & Franke, Fabian & Hagist, Christian, 2020. "Gone with the windfall – Germany's Second LTC Strengthening Act and its intergenerational implications," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 17(C).
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    DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2020.100254
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    2. Bahnsen, Lewe & Wild, Frank, 2023. "Soziale Pflegeversicherung heute und morgen: Stand und mögliche Szenarien," WIP-Analysen März 2023, WIP – Wissenschaftliches Institut der PKV.
    3. Bahnsen, Lewe & Wild, Frank, 2021. "Bürgerversicherung oder Finanzausgleich? Keine Lösungen für die demografischen Herausforderungen in der Pflege," WIP-Kurzanalysen Oktober 2021, WIP – Wissenschaftliches Institut der PKV, Köln.
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    5. Stefan Fetzer & Stefan Moog, 2021. "Indicators for Measuring Intergenerational Fairness of Social Security Systems—The Case of the German Social Health Insurance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-18, May.

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    Generational accounting; Long-term care insurance; Intergenerational distribution;
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    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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