We analyze the causal effect of retirement on the size, composition and intensity of social relationships using data … from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the … different retirement eligibility ages as instruments for the endogenous individuals' retirement decisions and controls for time …

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 …

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 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 share of workers who are self-employed rises markedly with age. Given policy concerns about inadequate retirement …

adult labor supply behaviors in Singapore. We first evaluate the impact of the Retirement and Re-employment Act (RRA) reform …