Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12% of male workers in West Germany are affected,...

Within the three-pillar German pension system, the German Pension Insurance remains the most important source of old-age income. From a gender comparative perspective, existing literature shows the inequality between men and women regarding income and wealth in general. Wealth includes pension...

We exploit an incremental retirement age reform to investigate the impact of an increase in the legal retirement age on the benefit-claiming age using administrative data from the German public pension insurance. We synthesize findings from several marginal retirement age increases over 10 birth...

This study investigates the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth, focusing on women born between 1937 and 1989. Expanding upon previous research, we (a) contrast the impact of motherhood on public pension wealth and net wealth, (b) adopt a dynamic perspective by...

We study heterogeneity in the effects of a pension reform in Germany: the introduction of the old-age pension for the very long-term insured, which lowered the threshold for full pension receipt from age 65 to 63. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD) and rich administrative pension...

This study examines the relationship between the onset and progression of a chronic disease and subsequent income and employment trajectories using SHARE-RV, a longitudinal dataset that links survey data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with German Pension...

Since 2016 the Journal of Economics and Statistics publishes the Data Observer section with descriptions of data that can be used in empirical research in economics (and in the social sciences in general), This note gives a short overview of the contributions published in the first 10 yers.

Migration scholars commonly study international migration and socio-economic integration separately, typically focusing on a single receiving country in the Global North. The TRANSMIT project adopts a transnational perspective, studying key migration routes to Europe via large-scale surveys...