This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …

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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …

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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

This paper investigates how retirement influences the cognitive abilities of British older workers. The analysis …. Consistent with the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, we show that retirement induces cognitive decline, although the relationship … that maintaining a mentally engaging and stimulating life-style during retirement contributes to the cognitive health of …

This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …

, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy … elderly people. We also show that working beyond the normal retirement age has a much stronger negative association with … earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …