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The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings : Distributional Implications for the Pension System
Haan, Peter - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
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Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?
Kim, Seonghoon - 2020
We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore … monthly panel data, we find that early access to pension wealth improves self-reported overall health …
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The Effect of Wealth and Earned Income on the Decision to Retire : A Dynamic Probit Examination of Retirement
Bender, Keith A. - 2014
been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The … reinforced by wealth and earned income …
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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus; Sierminska, Eva - 2022
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … few surveys collecting information on wealth and pension entitlements at the individual level. Pension wealth data are …
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
Stuhler, Jan - 2010
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from life-cycle effects. Specifically, I demonstrate that procedures based on the generalized...
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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Boenke, Timm - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around...
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Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Nybom, Martin - 2011
Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter periods causes a so-called life-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes....
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Lifetime Versus Annual Tax Progressivity : Sweden, 1968–2009
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...
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The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital : An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations
Lindahl, Mikael - 2012
Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings for three generations and data on educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107704
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
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