mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the … whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … Concordance) are used to test for absolute and conditional beta-convergence in mortality. We find mixed results for the inequality …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …

Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are … male and female mortality rates determined by different socioeconomic factors and in different shapes? We use aggregated …

We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects …