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This paper provides an analysis of the retirement patterns in East and West Germany in the first period after German unification. The study is driven first by a general interest in retirement behavior in East Germany, and in the characteristics which distinguish it from its counterpart in West Germany. Secondly, we investigate whether the incentives in the German public retirement system to retire at certain ages were strong enough to change the customary East German retirement patterns even in a brief period of time.
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Börsch-Supan, A., Schmidt, P. (2001). Early Retirement in East and West Germany. In: Riphahn, R.T., Snower, D.J., Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Employment Policy in Transition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56560-1_5
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