Galdeano for supplying some of the data sets. We are grateful to Georg Kirchteiger for useful discussions, and to Tito Boeri for valuable comments.

This paper summarizes the results of a comparative study focused on health care system performance in EU countries and candidate states in Central and Eastern Europe.

OBJECTIVE To project the proportion of population 65+ years with severe long-term activity limitations from 2017 to 2047. DESIGN Large population study. SETTING Population living in private households of the European Union (EU) and neighbouring countries. PARTICIPANTS Participants from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions aged 55 years and older and living in one of 26 EU and...

The year 2014 confronted European policy-makers with a qualitatively altered situation. For the first time in many years an interstate conflict in Europe – manifested as an inner-state conflict – is being resolved by military means. Persistent uncertainty and a growing potential for conflict are the new realities the European Union (EU) must face – in its eastern neighborhood as well as in the ...

This paper is about the current situation of German legislation regarding the European Directive on safety and health when working with display screen equipment. After a brief review of the main points and implications of the directive in general, its challenges from a German perspective are described. In the second part of this paper the SANUS initiative of the Ministry of Education, Science, ...

We live in digital society. This is evidenced by the extensive use of information technology in all spheres of life. Digital Society is not just a technology, but a comprehensive social organization, where the information and its exchange play a major role. In this article, we present successes of Estonia’s digital agenda and argue for coordinated farmercentered actions for digitization of agri...

In this paper, we argue that the bulk of EU budget spending can be attributed to measures of the distribution of voting power in the Council of Ministers. Using such estimates, we compare incumbent member states' predicted budget receipts before and after eastern enlargement, and examine the impact of different voting rules in EU-27. According to our estimates eastern enlargement has large effe...

An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of deterioration thereafter. In southern Europe and Ire...

Owing to high quantum efficiency, adjustable composition and antioxidation properties of oxynitride phosphors, extensive investigations have focused on their photoluminescence properties under low-energy light excitation (UV or blue light). However, the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) luminescence properties of oxynitride phosphors are rarely researched. Present work studies the structure and VUV lumi...