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Income and longevity revisited : do high-earning women live longer?
Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010
years longer than a woman at the 10th percentile. -- Life expectancy and income ; women ; public pensions ; Germany … confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260329
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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty
Breyer, Friedrich (contributor); Hupfeld, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776611
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Incentives to retire later : a solution to the social security crisis?
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001
As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435789
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Sharing demographic risk : who is afraid of the baby bust
Ludwig, Alexander - 2008
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Why funding is not a solution to the "social security crisis"
Breyer, Friedrich - 2001
It is now a commonplace that the unfunded public pension systems of many OECD countries will run into severe financing problems in the coming decades due to a dramatically increasing pensioner/worker ratio. While this diagnosis is completely undisputed, there is still a vigorous debate on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434286
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577445
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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579344
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Self-rated health and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from German panel data
Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2000
, there have been no studies conducted for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) we confirm … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432793
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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433806