englischThis book conceptualises a substantive right to a social minimum, defined as non-discriminatory access to minimum essential levels of subsistence. In a comparative analysis of the Concluding Observations of five UN human rights treaty bodies across all EU Member States in the period of [...]

englischThe thesis examines the eligibility for considerations of aids for the injury pension of the statutory accident insurance, in particular with regard to the concept of the term MdE, the tasks of the injury pension and various principles of the statutory accident insurance as well as Art. 3 [...]

englischThis report for the Stiftung Deutsche Schlaganfall-Hilfe (German Stroke Foundation) deals with the various regulatory options for installing patient guides in the social security system and provides estimates for legislative implementation. The main part of the report deals with the [...]

englischPublic pension provision – where it exists – is in a state of flux around the world. However, the way challenges such as demographic change are dealt with differs greatly from country to country, as does the social reality. This paper compares the German statutory pension insurance with the [...]

englischSocial, political, and economic changes that are particularly induced by migration, increasing European integration, and globalization have left their mark on social law and access to social benefits. Ibrahim Kanalan’s thesis ties in with this empirical evidence and deals with the question [...]

englischIn the competition between operators of residential care homes, the quality of care is a special parameter. Religious organizations, such as Caritas and Diakonie, promise a special, individual quality of care. Following on from this, the study examines the extent to which the law of external [...]

englischThe German and the Italian systems of retirement plans are currently facing the same challenge, prompted by a similar demographic shift. This shift and the different approaches of the constitutional courts of both countries to this issue are discussed, with a particular focus on a [...]

englischThe book deals with the development of nursing care rates from the 1970s until the establishment of nursing care insurance with the legislative idea of pricing with elements of the market to the current state. The author does not share the assumption that there was a pure cost recovery [...]

englischThe paper deals with the question under which German and under which European guidelines the statutory pension insurance could be transformed into an employment insurance. First, it is clarified what the term employment insurance and social insurance means. In the following, it is clarified [...]

englischSocial jurisdiction is an essential institution of the German social constitutional state. It is here that social rights are realised and the welfare state can be experienced. At the same time, the social courts with their upstream and downstream divisions are places where social conflicts [...]