We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 … health deficits faster than workers from the second (high status) group. We instrument retirement by statutory retirement …

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …

This paper develops a general equilibrium life-cycle model with endogenous retirement and disability risk, in order to … analysis focus on the increase in the normal retirement age (NRA) from age 65 to 67 (Reform 2007) and the recent increase in … early retirement benefits in the future …

would rather prefer to spend public resources on health and social security than on education. Furthermore the paper shows …

Germany recent reforms that aim at raising retirement age and cutting benefit levels should be complemented by increases in …

increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for … people to retire prematurely. To this end, countries have adopted alternative retirement age strategies, but our analyses … methods that underestimate life expectancy. This paper discusses how to implement automatic indexation of the retirement age …

Most industrialized countries today are facing historical demographic changes, paring increasing retirement with a … this effect by exploiting variation in the pre-determined component of retirement. We find that a 10-point increase in the …

We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime … utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life …

One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the … population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems …. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that this is not the case because most of the correlation of age and health care …