This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence on cohort trends
of the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the …

De façon contrastée, les pays à plus forte mortalité (en Afrique notamment), se trouvent dans
des contextes bien différents: en termes de transitions démographiques et …

The ongoing demographic change in most developed countries consists of two coinciding
independent developments that differ in structure and persistence: A slow, monotonic and …

Should pension provisions differ by occupation? We study the optimality of allowing the
pension policies to differ by occupation when individuals differ in longevity and occupation …

Many pension schemes offer annuities pooling mortality risk across members. Such pooling
has been criticized for having a regressive bias benefitting risk classes with the longest …

We investigate the differential impact that pension systems have on the labor supply and the
accumulation of physical and human capital for individuals that differ by their learning ability …

This paper develops an overlapping generation model of endogenous growth by
incorporating an idiosyncratic productivity shock and heterogeneous individual labor …

Socio‐economic differences in longevity have fuelled a debate on whether pension systems
have a regressive bias favouring groups with a high life expectancy. We show that the …

In high-mortality countries (notably in Africa), the situation is very different, in terms not only
of demographic and epidemiological transitions, but also of health, social, and economic …

As with many social transfer schemes, pension systems around the world are often
progressive: individuals with lower incomes receive a higher percentage of their income as …