cognition. Third, ill health affects employment much more than hours. Fourth, there is no evidence of health justification bias … (Bound, 1991). Finally, declining health & cognition explain at most 35% of the observed work reduction. This hints at a … this paper uses the European SHARE survey. Results are essentially fivefold. First, physical health and cognitive …

as much as their younger (50-54) counterparts in similar health/with equal cognition. It uses international, European …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … health and cognition. And health consists of subjective and objective measures. Also, it examines the extensive and intensive …

’ labour force participation, cognitive ability, and health in a simple theoretical model, and estimates the effects of … in countries with few formal care alternatives. Furthermore, caregivers in all countries suffer from worse mental health … when caregiving is prompted by poor parental health. The results for the effects of caregiving on physical health and …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …

Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and cover sixteen European countries …We investigate the consequences of experiencing an acute health shock, namely the first onset of myocardial infarction … availability of an extremely rich set of health and labour market information as well as of panel data. To remove the potential …

keine Korrelation zwischen Gesundheit und Entwicklungen im Arbeitsangebot. Gesundheit scheint kein Haupttreiber in den …English Abstract We use SHARE data from eight European countries to measure the evolution of health of middle …-aged individuals over time. In contrast to earlier findings in Europe, we observe a stalling health trend for individuals of later year …

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 …