This paper describes the available annuity contracts and determines their money's worth for diffrent subgroups of the population.

In recent years, access to German research data on labour markets and social insurances has improved substantially. Never-theless, reforms are urgently needed to catch up with other countries. Among the most important measures, the German governmentshould legalise the merging of information from...

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt an Hand des Projektes ‚Differentielle Sterblichkeit’, in welcher Form die Daten der Rentenversicherung über das Forschungsdatenzentrum der Rentenversicherung (FDZ-RV) genutzt werden können: Zunächst wurde der Scientific Use File (SUF) Demografie genutzt. An Hand...

We estimate remaining life expectancy at age 65 using a very large sample of male German pensioners. Our analysis is entirely nonparametric. Furthermore, the data enable us to compare life expectancy in eastern and western Germany conditional on a measure of socio-economic status. Our findings...