self-insurance through a partner’s response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical …Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … evidence on the existence of a health-related `added worker effect’. We use UK longitudinal data to investigate within …

the full eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to study the relationship between retirement, health … levels and health shocks in nine European countries. The results show a consistency of effect with only small variation in … magnitude both for latent health stock variables as well as the subjective SAH measures. This is compatible with previous …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively … health limitations and a measure of latent health status obtained from a generalized ordered probit model. Further, our … results provide evidence that, for women, the health status of their partner impacts on their retirement decisions; an effect …

, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the inuence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … eects logit, that allows for individual-specic reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and heterogeneity in the …

relating to the health domains of mobility and memory from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we … perform pairwise country comparisons of self-reported health, objective measures of health, and measures of health adjusted … discrepancy between the distribution of self-reported data and objective measures of health and assesses whether vignettes are …

, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …