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

Over the last thirty years pathways to retirement have changed substantially in the UK. They have been dominated by …. At the end of the period the direct route from work to retirement was increasingly more common. General economic … conditions seem to have been important driving forces during the entire period. In contrast changes in health do not seem to …

following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset … Security benefits and defined benefit pension benefits--and through health capital that was accumulated before retirement. We …

ways that reflect an expectation of longer work lives. But do older Americans have the health capacity to work longer? This … mortality rate in the past or as much as their younger counterparts in similar health. Using both methods, we estimate that … there is significant additional capacity to work at older ages. We also explore whether there are differences in health …

Retirement Around the World. The project compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries and uses differences in their … retirement program provisions to explore the effect of SS on retirement and related questions. The first three phases of this … project document that: 1) incentives for retirement from SS are strongly correlated with labor force participation rates …

composition for people in their pre and post-retirement years …

While numerous studies have examined how health affects retirement behavior, few have analyzed the impact of retirement … on subsequent health outcomes. This study estimates the effects of retirement on health status as measured by indicators … waves of the Health and Retirement Study, spanning 1992 through 2005. To account for biases due to unobserved selection and …

econometric frameworks: potential outcomes and dynamic programming. It finds large effect heterogeneity of health on work in two … surveys of older workers, the VRI and the HRS. It shows how reduced-form estimates of health on work are biased when there is … of work given health …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … older persons will increase the unemployment of youth. The fifth phase on "Historical Trends in Mortality and Health … methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI programs. The …

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 …