Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
depends on the life expectancy of the individual, which is positively correlated with annual income. In that earlier paper, we … introduced the concept of "distributive neutrality", which takes income-group-specific differences in life expectancy into … account. The present paper estimates the relationship between annual earnings and life expectancy of German retirees …