Denmark we find that those in worse health and with less schooling are more likely to receive DI. The gradient of DI …There are large differences in labor force participation rates by health status. We examine to what extent these … participation across health quintiles is almost twice as steep as for schooling - moving from having no high school diploma to …

Denmark we find that those in worse health and with less schooling are more likely to receive DI. The gradient of DI …There are large differences in labor force participation rates by health status. We examine to what extent these … participation across health quintiles is almost twice as steep as for schooling - moving from having no high school diploma to …

evidence of the health effects of retirement. In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and …-country research using these instruments. While the short-term health impact of retirement in Europe remains uncertain, the medium- to … long-term effects appear to be negative and economically large. -- Health ; Retirement ; Share ; Sharelife …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …

; retirement ; disability insurance ; health … cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … health events, proxied by unanticipated hospitalizations, to information on retirement decisions and actual incentives from …