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China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …
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disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …
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The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects undergo a shift in their social status without considerable...
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This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and...
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evidence of the health effects of retirement. In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and … the effect of spending longer time in retirement. Using spouses' characteristics as instruments, while taking precautions … to ensure validity, we find a robust, negative impact of being retired and spending longer time in retirement on …
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This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...
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This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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