This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement. …

Knowledge about how elderly workers react to changes in pension benefits is important in guiding the design of social …-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s, older workers had the option of partial retirement with an income replacement … women chose part-time retirement after the reduction in benefit levels in 1981. There was an approximate 4 percentage point …

situation post retirement. However, economic motives seem to be more important for younger pensioners. …

into work and that such accepted jobs go along with lower wages. We also find a positive effect of a vacancy referral on …

applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …

health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …

retire with full pension benefits from 63 to 65. Instrumental variable estimation results show no evidence that postponing …This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing …