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Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
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evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is … externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify the causal …
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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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …
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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, we establish a substantial untapped work capacity...
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As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …
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The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … age of retirement. Individual panel data for the last 25 years are used in estimations of the impact from individual …
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participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where … has been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. We find significant impact on work after retirement from … education, gender, home ownership, aggregate unemployment at the time of retirement, age and education. Being married has a …
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