Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Scholz, Rembrandt D. - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 4, pp. 83-108
eastern and western Germany conditional on socio-economic status. As a simple summary measure, we compute period life … and western Germany. Our analysis contributes to the literature in three aspects. First, we provide the first population …-based differential mortality study for Germany. Second, we use a novel measure of lifetime earnings as a proxy for socio-economic status …