This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of …

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning … typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. This results from …

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … unrelated to the baseline health of the individual, and are significant predictors of retirement. We find that there is no …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multidimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …’ participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of …This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … 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 …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes … individual-level objective and subjective health and socioeconomic parameters as predictors. …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …