retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of … assortative mating and/or complementarities in leisure; the effects of all relevant factors on the retirement decision of one … poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement …

In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use … five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for … accumulate health deficits faster than workers from the second (high status) group. We instrument retirement by statutory …