New Possibilities for Socio-Economic Research through Longitudinal Data from the Research Data Centre of the German Federal Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV)

Himmelreicher, Ralf K.; Stegmann, Michael

doi:10.3790/schm.128.4.647

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“…6 We use the full VSKT, which is roughly four times as large as the scienti c-use le SUFVSKT and can only be accessed on-site. 7 A detailed description of the data can be found in Himmelreicher and Stegmann (2008). analysis. We restrict the sample to women born 12 months before and after the cuto (cohorts 1951 and 1952).…”

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Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Geyer

Welteke

2017

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment e ects of an unprecedented large increase in the early retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension bene ciaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may choose other social support programs as exit routes from employment. We study the e ects of the ERA increase on employment and potential program substitution in a regression-discontinuity framework. Germany abolished an important early retirement program for women born after 1951, e ectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the e ects of this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the reform increased both employment and unemployment rates of women age 60 and over. However, we do not nd evidence for active program substitution from employment into alternative social support programs. Instead employed women remained employed and unemployed women remained unemployed. The results suggest an increase in inequality within the a ected cohorts. Terms of use: Documents in

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Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Geyer

Welteke

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…Therefore the biography of an insured person can be reconstructed at different points in time. Normally the recorded time span starts at the age of 17 and ends when a person gets her first pension payment (Himmelreicher / Stegmann, 2008). The information on the histories of the individuals is available since 1938 (Stegmann, 2008).…”

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Biographical Data of Social Insurance Agencies in Germany – Improving the Content of Administrative Data

Hochfellner¹,

Müller²,

Wurdack³

2012

SCHM

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“…The data therefore comprise the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1977, 4 leading to an overall sample of about 60,000 individuals. The sample has been drawn in a disproportionate manner and can be made representative using a weighting factor that is part of the data set (for a detailed description see Bönke 2009, Himmelreicher andStegemann 2008). To identify former GDR citizens, we first select all individuals who prior to monetary union (i. e., the 30th of June 1990) had exhibited at least one monthly spell of pension-relevant activities in the GDR, i. e. those individuals who had gained East German credit points prior to unification.…”

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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD Data Set

Gürtzgen

Nolte

2017

J Labour Market Res

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Using combined data from the German Pension Insurance and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD), this study proposes different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the educational system in the former GDR, we propose three different imputation procedures, which we validate using external GDR census data for selected age groups. A common result from all procedures is that they tend to underpredict (overpredict) the share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with information on educational attainment from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) reveals that the best match is obtained for the vocational training degree. Although regressions show that misclassification with respect to IEB information is clearly related to observables, we do not find any systematic pattern across skill groups. Keywords

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New Possibilities for Socio-Economic Research through Longitudinal Data from the Research Data Centre of the German Federal Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV)

Cited by 40 publications

References 2 publications

Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Biographical Data of Social Insurance Agencies in Germany – Improving the Content of Administrative Data

Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD Data Set

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