conditions seem to have been important driving forces during the entire period. In contrast changes in health do not seem to … share of the population reporting ill health or disability or to the number claiming benefits. We also find evidence that …

We use the first wave of the Health and Retirement Survey to study the effect of health on the labor force activity of … Black and White men and women in their 50s. The evidence we present confirms the notion that health is an extremely … important determinant of early labor force exit. Our estimates suggest that health differences between Blacks and Whites can …

appreciated social achievement which increases the well-being especially of those workers who suffer from work-related health … more so than normal retirement. Early retirement most probably is a reaction to a health shock. Individuals are less happy … more objective measurement of health …

This paper studies the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability … physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD and the uptake of DI … benefits in the US and Europe using a harmonized data set with life history information assembled from the Survey of Health …

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

The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event … supply decisions after a spouse’s disability or health shock and the role of paid leave laws implemented in California and … participation of potential caregivers decreased after spousal work-limiting disability or chronic health condition and, to a lesser …

This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in … Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence of different types of health deficiencies obtained from …