We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on … the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. … to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves …

We analyse the causal effect of involuntary retirement on detailed indicators of healthcare use and health status. Our …, identified from a change in the statutory retirement age. We conclude that there is little evidence for health deteriorating … identification strategy is based on a pension reform in Hungary which forced public sector workers above the statutory retirement age …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on … the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

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 … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

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 … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

retirement. Apart from direct health effects, the results also reveal behavioral changes in the utilization of healthcare … countries, these debates grow in intensity with the aging of the population; however, an increase in retirement age may create … unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early …