Overview
Professor of Health Economics and Management at the Schumpeter School of Economics and Business, University of Wuppertal (as of 2012). Works on health and aging in Germany and Europe, disability insurance, early retirement behavior, and the use of SHARE data for cross-national analysis of aging populations.
Key Contributions / Features
- German DI and pension reform (Börsch-Supan and Jürges 2012): Co-authored the analysis of Germany's five-phase pension reform history showing that DI uptake is driven by institutional incentive structures rather than health or mortality trends. Documents cohort-level retirement hazard discontinuities from the 1972, 1978, and 1984 reforms; German DI diagnosis composition shift (cardiovascular → mental/musculoskeletal 1983–2008); and the WWI birth-cohort health-shock case study. See DI Uptake and Health Decoupling and Causal Effects of DI Receipt.
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