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 …

explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … needed to equalize expected health at the moment of retirement. Results point at the need for a very high degree of … retirement age differentiation would fail to match a significant portion of the full distribution of health status. In a world …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to …Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we … retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims …