and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … find that in Western Germany alone each new chemical entity has on average saved around 200 working years in every year of … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …

challenges for the pension system. However, a prolonged working life impacts a person’s health. Detailed data from the statutory … health insurance companies shows that abolishing the "Rente für Frauen" (women’s pension) in 1999, which allowed women to … retire at 60, resulted in negative health effects. Women who were affected by the reform and could not retire until age 63 …