CESifo DICE Report 4/2009 (Winter)

Forum: Life-Course Persprective and Social Policies - Institutional Failures and the Life Course (Lans Bovenberg) - Securing Long-term Care in the EU: Some Key Issues (Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau) - Time for Change? US Work-Family Policy in the Age of Obama (Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman) - Defined Contribution Accounts - Still an Indispensable Idea (Jacob Kirkegaard) - Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence (Flávio Cunha and James Heckman); Research Reports: Public Debt and Demography - An International Comparison Using Generational Accounting (Christian Hagist, Stefan Moog, Bernd Raffelhüschen and Johannes Vatter) - Women's Empowerment: Gender-related Indices as a Guide for Policy (Ulrike Jäger and Anja Rohwer); Reform Models: East Germany Today: Successes and Failures (Joachim Ragnitz); Database: Worldwide Governance Indicators: Government Effectiveness, 2008 - Providing Evidence for Evidence-Based Health Policies: Comparative Effectiveness Research in Four Countries - Small Firms Exemptions from Employment Protection - The Elusive European Electricity Market - Developments in OECD Product Market Regulations - Class Size and Student- Teacher Ratio; News: New at DICE Database, Conferences, Books