health variables. Concerning the evidence, we first find that a working spouse is more likely to retire the more recently the … poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement … decisions much more strongly than the wife's health does. Additional asymmetric effects are detected with respect to income …

relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using …. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We examine the value added of … objective health variables in relation to potentially endogenous self-reported health. We approach the endogeneity of self …-reported health as an omitted variables problem. In line with the literature on the reliability of self-reported health, ambiguous …

health and income would be associated. Theory suggests that health deteriorates with age, in particular for low income groups …Earlier studies of health inequality across European countries have shown intriguing results, in particular with … respect to retirement status as one of the determinants of health inequality. A priori, one would expect that inequality in …

performance deteriorate with age. Second, the 50-54 employment rate is negatively impacted by ill health, less so by poor … cognition. Third, ill health affects employment much more than hours. Fourth, there is no evidence of health justification bias … this paper uses the European SHARE survey. Results are essentially fivefold. First, physical health and cognitive …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives, thereby substantially reducing the implied tax on the husband's employment … for employment, we find that working an additional full year at old age decreases longevity. This mortality effect occurs …