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. 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 …
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-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 …
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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 …
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This paper examines the health impact of UK pension reforms that increased women's State Pension age for up to six … reduces physical and mental health among women from routine-manual occupations. We show robust evidence that a larger increase … in the State Pension age leads to larger negative health effects, resulting in a widening gap in health between women …
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health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all over the place but on average it seems like at retirement mental … see the forest for the trees and advocate evidence-based retirement policies that take health effects into account … the life of their partners. This paper presents an overview of recent studies on the effects of retirement on mental …
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-aged individuals over time. In contrast to earlier findings in Europe, we observe a stalling health trend for individuals of later year … Gesundheit von Personen mittleren Alters über Zeit zu messen. Im Gegensatz zu früheren Forschungsergebnissen für Europa …English Abstract We use SHARE data from eight European countries to measure the evolution of health of middle …
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We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …
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labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also …Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant … empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by … which housing deprivation affects health, namely, neighborhood effects and the effects of the individual dwelling unit …
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European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …
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