five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for …In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use … accumulate health deficits faster than workers from the second (high status) group. We instrument retirement by statutory …

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on … wages. Health deficit accumulation is also influenced by unhealthy consumption and health care expenditure. I calibrate the …

Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere …Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf … Ruhestand anhand des gesetzlichen Rentenalters ("normal" und "früh") und stellen fest, dass die Gesundheit von Arbeitnehmern in …

purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health …We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …

Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on … show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of … of human aging. For example, the level of health deficits experienced at age 65 by individuals born 1920 is predicted to …

white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement policies could be designed to provide a fair and aggregate welfare … increase in replacement rates of blue-collar workers. If the statutory retirement age is sufficiently high or the life … retirement incentives. …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …