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Retirement Age and Preretirement in German Administrative Data

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Barbara Berkel () (Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA))
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The present paper investigates individual determinants of retirement entry age using administrative data on individuals’ retirement entries in 2003 published by the German Pension Insurance (SUF Versichertenrentenzugang 2003 ). As preretirement is an important issue in Germany, special interest is attached to the identification of individuals that preretire: 40 percent of all men and women in the sample preretire. On average they stay 2.4 years in preretirement before taking one of the o

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Paper provided by Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim in its series MEA discussion paper series with number 06107.

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