groups, i.e. people in the first half of the 60s of which many are eligible for early retirement programs and people older … than 65 mostly eligible for social security retirement programs. For these two age groups the actual development in labor … changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive … that the program leads to larger negative impacts among women. We demonstrate that retirement and access to a retirement …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to …Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we … retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims …

attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the "Health and Retirement Nexus" requires an …This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …

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 … individual-level objective and subjective health and socioeconomic parameters as predictors. …

are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for … individual health. Using the exogenous variation in minimum retirement age induced by a sequence of Italian pension reforms …By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age …

labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …