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 …

This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We … use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor … how the timing of health shocks affects labor force behavior. Controlling for lagged values of health, poor …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using … weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of …

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

Older adults have the highest rates of many health conditions for which medical marijuana may be effective in … moderating symptoms and are at elevated risk of reducing labor supply due to poor health. Surprisingly little is known about how … laws on the health and labor supply of adults age 51 and older, focusing on those with medical conditions that may respond …

benefit for an immediate lump-sum payment, using an experimental module in the 2004 Health and Retirement Study. Our first … price sensitivity and evidence consistent with adverse selection; in particular, people in better health and having more … optimistic longevity expectations are more likely to choose the annuity. Third, after controlling on education, more financially …

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 …

leads to a reduction in longevity. We also find that this exposure leads to several years of reduced employment, health … several years of reduced employment and earnings before "retiring" when they reach Social Security eligibility at age 62. They … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when …

capacity across education groups and whether health has improved more over time for the highly educated, using education … 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 …

whether higher employment among older persons might increase youth unemployment and finds no link between the two. The fifth … closely linked to DI reforms than to changes in health and that reducing access to DI would raise labor supply. This seventh … the health capacity to work, asking how much older individuals today could work if they worked as much as those with the …