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recipients at ages 55-59 is, as expected, higher for military employees born 1938-39,
compared to other government employees and older military personnel. Alternative
measures of employment (i.e., prevalence of labor market earnings larger than one price
base amount, and being registered as gainfully employed in administrative registers)
show that employment is lower for military employees born 1938-39, compared to other
government employees and older military personnel. Military employees have on
average a longer education period than the non-military employees. The majority of
military employees have a college degree (i.e., post-secondary 2 years or more).
Obviously the variance is much larger for the non-military employees.
Table 2: Summary statistics for estimation sample, by birth cohort and military status
Military
Non-military
1931-1932
1938-1939
1931-1932
1938-1939
Mean SD Mean SD Mean
SD Mean SD
Labor income at age 54/1000 (SEK)
288.8 74.8 383.8 134.0 272.5 99.9 319.4 129.3
1 If labor income at age 54 above cap
0.23
0.55
0.18
0.33
Disposable income at age 59/1000 (SEK)
235.4 62.1 226.2 87.0 217.5 78.9 231.4 130.5
1 If occupational pension at age 54
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.01
1 If occupational pension at ages 55-59
0.09
0.78
0.10
0.18
1 If labor income >1 PBA at ages 56-60
0.99
0.62
0.98
0.96
1 If gainfully employed at age 55 to 59
0.98
0.84
0.98
0.97
Education level (yrs of schooling)
14.8
0.8 14.9
0.5
12.7
3.1
12.7 3.2
Number of days in inpatient care
during ages 56-70
24.99 91.82 11.17 22.62 21.62 58.75 15.91 39.69
during ages 56-60
8.99 66.54 2.68 9.38 7.05 40.90 4.01 17.18
during ages 61-70
16.01 38.39 8.48 19.86 14.57 36.74 11.91 32.36
1 if days > 0
during ages 56-70
0.70
0.65
0.69
0.65
during ages 56-60
0.33
0.27
0.33
0.29
during ages 61-70
0.58
0.55
0.58
0.55
Number of hospital inpatient episodes (prevalence)
during ages 56-70
3.25 4.56 2.37 3.50 3.24
5.07 2.86 4.61
during ages 56-60
0.93 2.05 0.52 1.19 0.88
2.18 0.75 1.87
during ages 61-70
2.32 3.57 1.85 3.10 2.36
4.05 2.11 3.69
Dead (before age 71)
0.19
0.12
0.16
0.13
Number of observations
598
695
11,097
7,596
Note: Disposable income is measured at age 59 because this is the earliest point in data for all cohorts. Disposable
income and labor income are in the 2013 price level, thousands SEK. Income above the cap means income
>7.5*PBA, where PBA is 1 Price Base Amount (PBA), which is 44,500 SEK in 2013. Gainful employment is defined
according to the ILO definition. Years of schooling is calculated from education level data.
The table shows furthermore that the average number of days in inpatient care (at ages
56-70, 56-60, and 61-70) is higher for older cohorts of military employees compared to
