Denmark we find that those in worse health and with less schooling are more likely to receive DI. The gradient of DI …There are large differences in labor force participation rates by health status. We examine to what extent these … participation across health quintiles is almost twice as steep as for schooling - moving from having no high school diploma to …

Denmark we find that those in worse health and with less schooling are more likely to receive DI. The gradient of DI …There are large differences in labor force participation rates by health status. We examine to what extent these … participation across health quintiles is almost twice as steep as for schooling - moving from having no high school diploma to …

We explore the effects of retirement on both physical and mental ill-health and whether these change in the presence of … relationship between retirement and health and a difference-in-differences approach combined with matching to investigate whether … the health effects of retirement are affected by the Great Recession. We estimate these models on data drawn from the …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … is aligned with its actual consequence: retirement exerts a positive causal impact on health. …

; retirement ; disability insurance ; health … cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in …

evidence of the health effects of retirement. In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and …-country research using these instruments. While the short-term health impact of retirement in Europe remains uncertain, the medium- to … long-term effects appear to be negative and economically large. -- Health ; Retirement ; Share ; Sharelife …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …