Differential mortality by lifetime earnings in Germany
Differential mortality by lifetime earnings in Germany
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德国按终生收入划分的死亡率差异
DOI：
10.4054/demres.2007.17.4
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
R. Scholz
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作者：
H. Gaudecker;R. Scholz
我们对年龄在65岁或以上的德国男性养老金领取者进行了一个非常大的样本，通过衡量社会经济地位来估计死亡率。我们的分析完全是非参数的。此外，这些数据使我们能够比较德国东部和西部根据社会经济地位的死亡率经验。作为一个简单的总结性测量，我们计算了65岁~65岁的预期寿命。我们的研究结果显示，最低的社会经济群体和最高的社会经济群体之间的预期寿命差异的下限接近50%（6年）。在分组中，我们发现前德意志民主共和国和西德的数值相似。我们的分析对文献的贡献体现在三个方面。首先，我们为德国提供了第一个基于人群的死亡率差异研究。其次，我们使用一种新的终身收入衡量方法作为社会经济地位的代表，这种方法仍然适用于退休人员。第三，德国东部和西部的比较可能为转型国家提供一些有趣的见解。
e estimate mortality rates by a measure of socio-economic status in a very large sample of male German pensioners aged ~65 or older. Our analysis is entirely nonparametric. Furthermore, the data enable us to compare mortality experiences in eastern and western Germany conditional on socio-economic status. As a simple summary measure, we compute period life expectancies at age~65. Our findings show a lower bound of almost 50 percent (six years) on the difference in life expectancy between the lowest and the highest socio-economic group considered. Within groups, we find similar values for the former GDR and western Germany. Our analysis contributes to the literature in three aspects. First, we provide the first population-based differential mortality study for Germany. Second, we use a novel measure of lifetime earnings as a proxy for socio-economic status that remains applicable to retired people. Third, the comparison between eastern and western Germany may provide some interesting insights for transformation countries.