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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 …. These findings are consistent with the view that retirement decisions are driven by institutional constraints and incentives …
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