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 …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future … levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms …

Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked … recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as Germany will be ageing very rapidly in the near future. Following a …

, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …

forming their preferences and evaluating its fairness. Taking advantage of the Bismarckian rule of proportionality in Germany …

Although elderly men and women share many of the same problems as they age, their lives are likely to follow different … courses. Women are more likely than men to live into old old-age and are more likely to spend part of their young old …-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this unpaid care women might enter retirement earlier, rather than prolonging …

I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar women on either side of the kink point. I find that a 100 euro …

Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women …'s families histories and their personal incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany, By comparing three countries with … system and women's incomes in later life. We conclude with a brief discussion of the 'women-friendliness' of different …

's incomes in later life. The association between older women's incomes and work histories is strongest in West Germany and …Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women …'s personal incomes and their work histories in the UK, US and West Germany. By comparing three countries with very different …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …