those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this … paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick …

benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different … empirical approaches with a similar logic: we estimate the link between health and labor force participation in a population …

Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the … interconnections from a European perspective based on the most recent SHARE data, such as: How is our health related to personality … different health care and societal regimes can we trace at older ages? Which are the differences and similarities across …