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Income and longevity revisited: Do high-earning women live longer?
Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010
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 …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …
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The health gradient and early retirement: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2006
This paper examines the role of the health gradient – the positive correlation between household income and health – in individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup-specific health gradients and find their slope increases...
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Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions
Breyer, Friedrich; Breunig, Christian; Kapteina, Mark; … - 2024
forming their preferences and evaluating its fairness. Taking advantage of the Bismarckian rule of proportionality in Germany …
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Causal effect of income on health: Investigating two closely related policy reforms in Austria
Schnalzenberger, Mario - 2011
I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, comparing three subsequent policy periods in Austria. The pensioners who retired in the second period received 25% lower pension than those in the first period. This reduction in income was removed in the third policy period....
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Endogenous differential mortality, non-contractible effort and non linear taxation
Leroux, Marie-Louise - 2009
This paper studies a problem of non linear taxation when individuals have different longevities resulting from a non-monetary effort (like exercising). We first present the laissez-faire and the first best. Like Becker and Philipson (1998), we find that the laissez-faire level of effort is too...
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Disability in the welfare state: An unemployment problem in disguise?
Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...
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The social costs of health-related early retirement in Germany: Evidence from the German Socio-economic panel
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2008
from Germany's pay-as-you-go pension system. Investments in new medical technology and better access to existing health …
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy experiment, we address the endogeneity of pension income by...
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Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Mazzarella, Gianluca - 2016
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for individual health. Using the exogenous variation in...
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Ill health and retirement in Britain: A panel data based analysis
Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl; Wakefield, Matthew - 2003
We examine the role of ill-health in retirement decisions in Britain, using the first eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-98). As self-reported health status is likely to be endogenous to the retirement decision, we instrument self-reported health by a constructed Ѩealth...
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