. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a …What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …

-country research using these instruments. While the short-term health impact of retirement in Europe remains uncertain, the medium- to … evidence of the health effects of retirement. In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and … to pay attention to the health effects of a longer working life, with rather mixed results thus far. Utilizing panel data …

poor health increases the retirement probability, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement … retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of … health variables. Concerning the evidence, we first find that a working spouse is more likely to retire the more recently the …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

We use the labor force ad hoc module "transition from work into retirement" to analyze the link between individual as … well as pension system characteristics and planned retirement age within the European Union. We find that timing of … retirement is correlated between partners who are, already at the stage of retirement planning. In richer countries of the EU15 …

We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of (Continental) European males … the cross country and time variation in employment protection legislation and minimum retirement age to study whether … policies that have increased minimum retirement age and reduced the strictness of employment protection legislation have raised …