In this paper we develop a life cycle model of labor supply and retirement to study the interactions between health and …. Individuals care about their health and can partially insure against health shocks by investing in health. We use the model to … incentives for the continued employment of older workers. In particular, the model predicts an increase in the average retirement …

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 … health, the cost of which is dependent on health insurance coverage. We find that the incentives faced by older workers …

This paper provides an overview of the Swedish social security system and its impact on individual retirement behavior …

the result to parametric changes in death risks and health production functions. …

In this study the effects of various types of rehabilitation programmes on different labour market and health related …

We examine the effects of economic incentives inherent in pension schemes and income security programs on retirement …

In this paper we test for existence of cointegration between health expenditure and GDP using data from 19 OECD …. Given this model, the main result indicates that a cointegrating relation exists between health expenditure and GDP. …

health outcomes. The purpose of this Swedish pilot study is to assess the costs and quality of life related to fractures of … are collected based on a societal perspective and include both direct and indirect costs. Health effects were measured by … in order to obtain reliable cost and health effect estimates after osteoporotic fractures in general and after spine …