address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …

challenges for the pension system. However, a prolonged working life impacts a person’s health. Detailed data from the statutory … health insurance companies shows that abolishing the "Rente für Frauen" (women’s pension) in 1999, which allowed women to … retire at 60, resulted in negative health effects. Women who were affected by the reform and could not retire until age 63 …

employee experiences with his/her boss and the role of his/her health status are analyzed using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) data. Estimation results show that conflicts matter as well as an individual's health status when considering the … accounting for a wide set of controls. Employees in good health have fewer intentions to retire. Split into subgroups, there …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

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 …

employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be …‐discontinuity approach to estimate the labor market reactions. Surprisingly, we find the same relative employment increase of about 25% for …

employment. An important at-risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be …-discontinuity approach to estimate the labor market reactions. Surprisingly, we find the same relative employment increase of about 25% for … the negative consequences of being unable to reach their statutory retirement age in employment. …

employment. An important at-risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be …-discontinuity approach to estimate the labor market reactions. Surprisingly, we find the same relative employment increase of about 25% for … the negative consequences of being unable to reach their statutory retirement age in employment …