Axel Börsch‐supan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Axel Börsch‐supan |
| PRENOMES | Axel |
| SOBRENOME | Börsch‐supan |
| ASSINATURA | SUPAN A B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0470-8850 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Preventing reforming unequally
Population aging has forced policy makers in most developed countries to reform pension systems with the aim of maintaining or re-establishing financial sustainability. This usually involves cost-cutting measures like later pension eligibility ages and lower replacement rates. Such reforms face harsh trade-offs with the objective of providing adequate pensions. Social welfare and inequality have emerged as crucial concerns about recent pension re…
Saving regret and procrastination
Effects of spot size on biomarker levels of field‐collected dried blood spots
OBJECTIVES: The quality of blood values analyzed from survey-collected dried blood spot (DBS) samples is affected by fieldwork conditions, particularly spot size. We offer an image-based algorithm that accurately measures the area of field-collected DBS and we investigate the impact of spot size on the analyzed blood marker values. METHODS: SHARE, a pan-European study, collected 24 000 DBS samples in 12 countries in its sixth wave. Our new algori…
Dried blood spot collection, sample quality, and fieldwork conditions
OBJECTIVES: SHARE, a pan-European panel study in 27 European countries and Israel, has collected dried blood spot (DBS) samples from approximately 27 000 respondents in 13 countries. We aim to obtain factors to convert analyte values between DBS and venous blood samples (VBS) taking account of adverse fieldwork conditions such as small spot size, high temperature and humidity, short drying time and long shipment times. METHODS: We obtained VBS an…
Older adults’ integration in the labour market
What governs labour force participation in later life and why is it so different across countries? Health and labour force participation in older ages are not strongly linked, but we observe a large variation across countries in old-age labour force participation. This points to the important role of country-specific regulations governing pension receipt and old-age labour force participation. In addition to the statutory eligibility age for a pe…
Early Determinants of Work Disability in an International Perspective
This study explores the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability insurance (DI) benefits due to work disability (WD), defined as the (partial) inability to engage in gainful employment as a result of physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD, and the uptake of DI benefits in the United States and Europe using a harmonized data set with …
Old-age Labor Force Participation in Germany
The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation -from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s -and at the same time the steady increase in older women's labor force participation. In a first step, we provide graphical evidence of the trends of various variables which may be relevant, with t…
Mothering alone
BACKGROUND: Single motherhood is associated with poorer health, but whether this association varies between countries is not known. We examine associations between single motherhood and poor later-life health in the USA, England and 13 European countries. METHODS: Data came from 25 125 women aged 50+ who participated in the US Health and Retirement Study, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Euro…
Data Resource Profile
SHARE is a unique panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks covering most of the European Union and Israel. To date, SHARE has collected three panel waves (2004, 2006, 2010) of current living circumstances and retrospective life histories (2008, SHARELIFE); 6 additional waves are planned until 2024. The more than 150 000 interviews give a broad picture of life after the age of 50 years, measuring…
The Individual and the Welfare State
Introduction
In our introduction to this Special Issue of JESP, we first sketch what we know and what we do not know about the adaptation process to a society with a large proportion of older individuals. We develop a framework of empirical analysis which exploits the power of multidisciplinary, longitudinal and cross-national comparative data collection. Second, we provide a brief overview of SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The …
The role of institutions and health in European patterns of work and retirement
This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and social security institutions in shaping the European patterns of work and retirement. The key novelty of our paper is a careful account of the health status of the respondents. We provide new evidence on the extent of health-adjusted "unused capacity" in the labour force, on the institutional determinants of the pathways to retirem…
Budget-, Versorgungs- und Verteilungswirkungen der beitragsfreien Entgeltumwandlung
Dieses Papier untersucht die Auswirkungen der sozialabgabenfreien Entgeltumwandlung in der betrieblichen Altersversorgung auf die Rentenversicherung und das Gesamtversorgungsniveau der Versicherten im Alter. Modellrechungen zeigen, dass die Beibehaltung der Sozialabgabenfreiheit zu einem je nach Szenario um etwa 0,1 bis 0,2 Prozentpunkte niedrigeren Rentenversicherungsbeitragssatz und einem um etwa 63 bzw. 39 Cent niedrigeren aktuellen Rentenwert…
Quality of work, well-being, and intended early retirement of older employees--baseline results from the SHARE Study
BACKGROUND: Given the challenge of a high proportion of older employees who retire early from work we analyse associations of indicators of a poor psychosocial quality of work with intended premature departure from work in a large sample of older male and female employees in 10 European countries. METHODS: Baseline data from the 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE) were obtained from 3523 men and 3318 women in 10 European c…
Ageing, Pension Reform and Capital Flows
Population ageing and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital markets. In order to quantify these effects, we develop a computational general equilibrium model. We feed this multi‐country overlapping‐generations model with detailed long‐term demographic projections for seven world regions. Our simulations indicate that capital flows from rapidly ageing regions to the rest of the world will initially be substantial, but …
Pension Reform in Germany
The paper examines the long-term implications of various reform options for retirement entry decisions and the actual retirement age of older workers. It focuses on the changes in pension legislation since 1992 and the reform options discussed by the German Social Security Reform Commission installed in 2002 (Rürup Commission). Our simulations show that the early-retirement adjustment factors introduced by the 1992 pension reform will raise the a…
Who determines household savings for old age? Evidence from Dutch panel data
Would you like to shrink the welfare state? A survey of European citizens
Welfare state reform A survey of what Europeans want The fundamental problems facing European welfare states – high unemployment and unsustainable public pensions plans in particular – have been in the political debate for years, so why have we seen so little reform? To find out, we surveyed the opinions of citizens in France, Germany, Italy and Spain on their welfare states and on various reform options. This is what we found. First, most worker…
A Model Under Siege
This study evaluates the positive and negative features of the German public pension system and discusses three reasons for its increasing perceived and real difficulties: maturation, negative incentive effects, and the problems of demographic change. The German system in its current form may be able to limp through the coming decades but will cease to be the exemplary Bismarckian machine that has created generous retirement incomes at reasonable…
Panel Data Analysis of the Beveridge Curve
This study investigates whether the Beveridge curve--the relation between vacancy and unemployment rate--is helpful for the quantification of structural unemployment. Since aggregate time series are too short to test detailed hypotheses about the Beveridge curve, the author assembles a panel of nine regions in West Germany. Analyses of these data produce little support for a structural macroeconomic interpretation of the Beveridge curve. The obse…
Property Taxes and House Values
Estimating housing consumption adjustments from panel data
On discrete choice models of housing demand
The role of institutions and health in European patterns of work and retirement
This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and social security institutions in shaping the European patterns of work and retirement. The key novelty of our paper is a careful account of the health status of the respondents. We provide new evidence on the extent of health-adjusted "unused capacity" in the labour force, on the institutional determinants of the pathways to retirem…
Mothering alone
BACKGROUND: Single motherhood is associated with poorer health, but whether this association varies between countries is not known. We examine associations between single motherhood and poor later-life health in the USA, England and 13 European countries. METHODS: Data came from 25 125 women aged 50+ who participated in the US Health and Retirement Study, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Euro…
On discrete choice models of housing demand
A Model Under Siege
This study evaluates the positive and negative features of the German public pension system and discusses three reasons for its increasing perceived and real difficulties: maturation, negative incentive effects, and the problems of demographic change. The German system in its current form may be able to limp through the coming decades but will cease to be the exemplary Bismarckian machine that has created generous retirement incomes at reasonable…
Introduction
In our introduction to this Special Issue of JESP, we first sketch what we know and what we do not know about the adaptation process to a society with a large proportion of older individuals. We develop a framework of empirical analysis which exploits the power of multidisciplinary, longitudinal and cross-national comparative data collection. Second, we provide a brief overview of SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The …
Who determines household savings for old age? Evidence from Dutch panel data
Panel Data Analysis of the Beveridge Curve
This study investigates whether the Beveridge curve--the relation between vacancy and unemployment rate--is helpful for the quantification of structural unemployment. Since aggregate time series are too short to test detailed hypotheses about the Beveridge curve, the author assembles a panel of nine regions in West Germany. Analyses of these data produce little support for a structural macroeconomic interpretation of the Beveridge curve. The obse…
Saving regret and procrastination
Older adults’ integration in the labour market
What governs labour force participation in later life and why is it so different across countries? Health and labour force participation in older ages are not strongly linked, but we observe a large variation across countries in old-age labour force participation. This points to the important role of country-specific regulations governing pension receipt and old-age labour force participation. In addition to the statutory eligibility age for a pe…
Early Determinants of Work Disability in an International Perspective
This study explores the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability insurance (DI) benefits due to work disability (WD), defined as the (partial) inability to engage in gainful employment as a result of physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD, and the uptake of DI benefits in the United States and Europe using a harmonized data set with …
Ageing, Pension Reform and Capital Flows
Population ageing and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital markets. In order to quantify these effects, we develop a computational general equilibrium model. We feed this multi‐country overlapping‐generations model with detailed long‐term demographic projections for seven world regions. Our simulations indicate that capital flows from rapidly ageing regions to the rest of the world will initially be substantial, but …
Preventing reforming unequally
Population aging has forced policy makers in most developed countries to reform pension systems with the aim of maintaining or re-establishing financial sustainability. This usually involves cost-cutting measures like later pension eligibility ages and lower replacement rates. Such reforms face harsh trade-offs with the objective of providing adequate pensions. Social welfare and inequality have emerged as crucial concerns about recent pension re…
Estimating housing consumption adjustments from panel data
On discrete choice models of housing demand
Property Taxes and House Values
Estimating housing consumption adjustments from panel data
Panel Data Analysis of the Beveridge Curve
This study investigates whether the Beveridge curve--the relation between vacancy and unemployment rate--is helpful for the quantification of structural unemployment. Since aggregate time series are too short to test detailed hypotheses about the Beveridge curve, the author assembles a panel of nine regions in West Germany. Analyses of these data produce little support for a structural macroeconomic interpretation of the Beveridge curve. The obse…
A Model Under Siege
This study evaluates the positive and negative features of the German public pension system and discusses three reasons for its increasing perceived and real difficulties: maturation, negative incentive effects, and the problems of demographic change. The German system in its current form may be able to limp through the coming decades but will cease to be the exemplary Bismarckian machine that has created generous retirement incomes at reasonable…
Would you like to shrink the welfare state? A survey of European citizens
Welfare state reform A survey of what Europeans want The fundamental problems facing European welfare states – high unemployment and unsustainable public pensions plans in particular – have been in the political debate for years, so why have we seen so little reform? To find out, we surveyed the opinions of citizens in France, Germany, Italy and Spain on their welfare states and on various reform options. This is what we found. First, most worker…
Pension Reform in Germany
The paper examines the long-term implications of various reform options for retirement entry decisions and the actual retirement age of older workers. It focuses on the changes in pension legislation since 1992 and the reform options discussed by the German Social Security Reform Commission installed in 2002 (Rürup Commission). Our simulations show that the early-retirement adjustment factors introduced by the 1992 pension reform will raise the a…
Who determines household savings for old age? Evidence from Dutch panel data
Ageing, Pension Reform and Capital Flows
Population ageing and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital markets. In order to quantify these effects, we develop a computational general equilibrium model. We feed this multi‐country overlapping‐generations model with detailed long‐term demographic projections for seven world regions. Our simulations indicate that capital flows from rapidly ageing regions to the rest of the world will initially be substantial, but …
Quality of work, well-being, and intended early retirement of older employees--baseline results from the SHARE Study
BACKGROUND: Given the challenge of a high proportion of older employees who retire early from work we analyse associations of indicators of a poor psychosocial quality of work with intended premature departure from work in a large sample of older male and female employees in 10 European countries. METHODS: Baseline data from the 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE) were obtained from 3523 men and 3318 women in 10 European c…
Budget-, Versorgungs- und Verteilungswirkungen der beitragsfreien Entgeltumwandlung
Dieses Papier untersucht die Auswirkungen der sozialabgabenfreien Entgeltumwandlung in der betrieblichen Altersversorgung auf die Rentenversicherung und das Gesamtversorgungsniveau der Versicherten im Alter. Modellrechungen zeigen, dass die Beibehaltung der Sozialabgabenfreiheit zu einem je nach Szenario um etwa 0,1 bis 0,2 Prozentpunkte niedrigeren Rentenversicherungsbeitragssatz und einem um etwa 63 bzw. 39 Cent niedrigeren aktuellen Rentenwert…
Introduction
In our introduction to this Special Issue of JESP, we first sketch what we know and what we do not know about the adaptation process to a society with a large proportion of older individuals. We develop a framework of empirical analysis which exploits the power of multidisciplinary, longitudinal and cross-national comparative data collection. Second, we provide a brief overview of SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The …
The role of institutions and health in European patterns of work and retirement
This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and social security institutions in shaping the European patterns of work and retirement. The key novelty of our paper is a careful account of the health status of the respondents. We provide new evidence on the extent of health-adjusted "unused capacity" in the labour force, on the institutional determinants of the pathways to retirem…
The Individual and the Welfare State
Data Resource Profile
SHARE is a unique panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks covering most of the European Union and Israel. To date, SHARE has collected three panel waves (2004, 2006, 2010) of current living circumstances and retrospective life histories (2008, SHARELIFE); 6 additional waves are planned until 2024. The more than 150 000 interviews give a broad picture of life after the age of 50 years, measuring…
Mothering alone
BACKGROUND: Single motherhood is associated with poorer health, but whether this association varies between countries is not known. We examine associations between single motherhood and poor later-life health in the USA, England and 13 European countries. METHODS: Data came from 25 125 women aged 50+ who participated in the US Health and Retirement Study, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Euro…
Old-age Labor Force Participation in Germany
The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation -from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s -and at the same time the steady increase in older women's labor force participation. In a first step, we provide graphical evidence of the trends of various variables which may be relevant, with t…
Early Determinants of Work Disability in an International Perspective
This study explores the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability insurance (DI) benefits due to work disability (WD), defined as the (partial) inability to engage in gainful employment as a result of physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD, and the uptake of DI benefits in the United States and Europe using a harmonized data set with …
Dried blood spot collection, sample quality, and fieldwork conditions
OBJECTIVES: SHARE, a pan-European panel study in 27 European countries and Israel, has collected dried blood spot (DBS) samples from approximately 27 000 respondents in 13 countries. We aim to obtain factors to convert analyte values between DBS and venous blood samples (VBS) taking account of adverse fieldwork conditions such as small spot size, high temperature and humidity, short drying time and long shipment times. METHODS: We obtained VBS an…
Older adults’ integration in the labour market
What governs labour force participation in later life and why is it so different across countries? Health and labour force participation in older ages are not strongly linked, but we observe a large variation across countries in old-age labour force participation. This points to the important role of country-specific regulations governing pension receipt and old-age labour force participation. In addition to the statutory eligibility age for a pe…
Effects of spot size on biomarker levels of field‐collected dried blood spots
OBJECTIVES: The quality of blood values analyzed from survey-collected dried blood spot (DBS) samples is affected by fieldwork conditions, particularly spot size. We offer an image-based algorithm that accurately measures the area of field-collected DBS and we investigate the impact of spot size on the analyzed blood marker values. METHODS: SHARE, a pan-European study, collected 24 000 DBS samples in 12 countries in its sixth wave. Our new algori…
Preventing reforming unequally
Population aging has forced policy makers in most developed countries to reform pension systems with the aim of maintaining or re-establishing financial sustainability. This usually involves cost-cutting measures like later pension eligibility ages and lower replacement rates. Such reforms face harsh trade-offs with the objective of providing adequate pensions. Social welfare and inequality have emerged as crucial concerns about recent pension re…
Saving regret and procrastination
Economics (20 obras) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (11 obras) · Demographic economics (10 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Global Health Care Issues (8 obras) · Labour economics (8 obras) · Pension (8 obras) · Finance (7 obras) · Population (7 obras)