Using panel data extracted from wave 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this paper investigates the impact of unemployment on health outcomes of the European elderly during the period 2004 to 2015. Various estimators with panel fixed-effects are employed...

Using panel data extracted from wave 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this paper investigates the impact of unemployment on health outcomes of the European elderly during the period 2004 to 2015. Various estimators with panel fixed–effects are employed...

Immigration is having an increasingly important effect on the social insurance system in the United States. On the one hand, eligible legal immigrants have the right to eventually receive pension benefits but also rely on other aspects of the social insurance system such as health care,...

Immigration is having an increasingly important effect on the social insurance system in the United States. On the one hand, eligible legal immigrants have the right to eventually receive pension benefits but also rely on other aspects of the social insurance system such as health care,...

Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...