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on retirement age. Our method reveals how divergence in the age pattern of mortality change drives international …
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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 … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …
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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 … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals’ health within the age range 56-70, we find support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884885
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …
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of health indicators and work status.Work status is divided into full-time work, part-time work, and retired for those in … pension-eligible 60s and the first half of the 70s. The simulation results indicate a large work capacity. The health status …
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Using data from the Health and Retirement Study linked with restricted data from the Social Security Administration …, this article compares retirement resources of immigrant and native-born workers. Results suggest that although immigrants … number of years in the United States, with the most recent immigrants being the least prepared for retirement. …
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We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … in the case of the broad definition of retirement. Initial health stock shows a significant impact on both definitions of …
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Retirement Nexus' requires an integrated model for work decisions, health production and health reporting mechanisms. We …. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected … by endogenous, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not …
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Using data from the first two Waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this research examines the relationship …
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drawn from the Health and Retirement Study for the United States. We use data on a person’s subjective probability of …We explore the proposition that expected longevity affects retirement decisions and accumulated wealth using micro data … survival to age 75 as a proxy for their prospective lifespan. In order to control for the presence of measurement error and …
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