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 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 … retire with full pension benefits from 63 to 65. Instrumental variable estimation results show no evidence that postponing …

The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China's population fell as deaths … China's exports. France is pushing through an increase of the retirement age in the face of what is called a demographic … financially unsustainable. This paper argues that most of the discussion and policy solutions proposed surrounding aging of …

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 …