Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Juan Manuel Pérez-Salamero González
Author-Email: juan.perez-salamero@uv.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Financial Economics and Actuarial Science, University of Valencia.
Author-Name: Marta Regúlez Castillo
Author-Email: marta.regulez@ehu.eus
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Quantitative Methods. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
Author-Name: Carlos Vidal-Meliá
Author-Email: carlos.vidal@uv.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Financial Economics and Actuarial Science, University of Valencia, Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico, 
	Complutense (ICAE), University of Madrid, Spain (research affiliate) and Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW, 
	Sydney, Australia.
Title: Mortality and life expectancy trends for male pensioners by pension income level
Abstract: We draw on the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (CSWL) to investigate the differences in socioeconomic mortality among retired men aged 65 and above over the 
	longest possible period covered by this data source: 2005–2018. This paper deals with the case of Spain, since very little evidence concerning retirement pensioners 
	is available for this country. The only indicator of socioeconomic status we use is the amount of the initial pension of the retired population. For 2005-2010 we 
	find a gap in life expectancy of 1.49 years between pensioners in the highest and lowest income groups. This gap widens over time and reaches 2.58 years for the 
	period 2015–2018. The increase in life expectancy inequality cannot be attributed to the pension system reforms carried out over the period 2011-2013, given that the 
	system has become more redistributive and there has been a clear increase in real terms in the amounts of minimum pensions over recent years. The causes might be 
	traced back to the decrease in public spending on health over the period 2009-2018 and the increased spending on private health, which would presumably be of more 
	benefit to those retirees with bigger pensions.
Classification-JEL: C81, H55, I14, J26.
Keywords: Inequalities; Life Expectancy; Life Tables; Mortality; Socioeconomic Factors.
Length: 20 pages 
Creation-Date: 2021-02
Number: 2021-02
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