This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

quality occurred that coincides with retirement. Physical health prospectively predicted subjective sleep quality and vice … reflections of impaired physical health or whether they represent a normative age dependent development. Method: Subjective sleep … quality and perceived physical health were assessed in a large representative sample of 14,179 participants (52.7% females …

that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume … former occupational prestige value, the higher the perceived loss of prestige after retirement. Thus, doing a job with high … prestige value increases the incentive to volunteer in retirement. This assumption is tested, using data taken from the German …

With the health care reform of the year 2004 in mind and coming from a multidimensional conception of poverty the … interrelation between income poverty and health care is analysed. The undertaken analyses show that the interrelation did increase … in the years subsequent to the health care reform of the year 2004. Mit Blick auf die Gesundheitsreform 2004 und …