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 …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models accounting for both cohort and lifecycle effects and use entropy … education on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in income and only small reductions in IOp in physical and mental health. …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …

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; and effect …