Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the …

who are wage-employed or out of the labour force. General health is a strong determinant of life satisfaction but the … differences among the groups remain when we control for health related variables. Further, the self-employed report higher job …

who are wage-employed or out of the labour force.General health is a strong determinant of life satisfaction but the … differences among the groups remain when we control for health related variables. Further, the self-employed report higher job …

A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … first quantifies the health gradient across and within each of the European countries across sociodemographic groups (i …