Incomes and Inequality in the Long Run: The Case of German Elderly

Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder and Schulte Katharina
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Schulte Katharina: University of Kiel,Kiel, Germany

German Economic Review, 2010, vol. 11, issue 4, 487-510

Abstract: We use German Sample Survey income data to examine the income distribution for elderly individuals during the period from 1978 to 2003. The elderly population, defined as people of age 55 and older, is decomposed by people resident in the Old and New Federal States. Further, we distinguish between persons receiving old-age pensions and persons who do not. Inequality estimates are decomposed by income components, and the bootstrap method is used to test for statistical significance of results.

Keywords: Pension; reform; aging; inequality; decomposition; German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure; bootstrap; statistical inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2009.00496.x

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