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 …

This paper investigates the interaction between measures of health, disability pension take up and labor market … performance in Denmark by charting their development over time and by examining how they are affected by key policy reforms in the … area of early retirement. The main emphasis is on the long-run development of the Social Disability Pension (SDP) program …

-based eligibility age implemented by reform that Denmark launched in 2006. Absent treatment, younger workers not only have biased …

would expect that wealth accumulated before retirement would be used to augment consumption in later life, with the … implication that wealth should decline over time. The risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenditures is negligible in Denmark … explanations are not plausible for Denmark (and therefore also questionable for the U.S.). Our analysis instead attempts to explain …

to medical marijuana. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to study these questions using …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 …

United Kingdom, given their health, and how this has evolved over the last decade. The objective is not to suggest how much … older people should work but rather to shed light on how much ill-health (as opposed to other constraints and preferences … older people seen over the last decade are more rapid than would have been expected based on the improvements seen in health …

health capacity to work longer. For that purpose we use Milligan-Wise and Cutler-Meara Cutler-Meara- Richards …

individuals could work if they worked as much as younger ones in similar health (the Cutler et al. method). Results from both of … these methods underscore a large work capacity in old age in Japan. We further investigate differences in health capacity …

Following an era of a development towards earlier retirement, there has been a reversed trend to later exit from the … labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and … as much as the age group 50-54 at a particular level of health. We also provide evidence on the development of self …

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 …