Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … effects of demography, health, and disability insurance / Axel Börsch-Supan -- Comment / Robert J. Willis -- Labor market … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P …

health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender …, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer …

It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including … health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data … than self-reports on general health or even on health conditions. The authors develop a cross-country measurement model for …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … research. Such opportunities are ample and diverse, ranging from frailty and financial abuse to health care arrangements in the …

This study aimed to explore the impact of retirement on health through the application of a fixed effects instrumental …, physical independence, and self-rated health after retirement. Consistently, retirement was associated with reduced physical … inactivity and smoking among women, which was not observed among men. Sex differences in post-retirement health behaviors may …

made by individuals, these decisions are influenced by a set of incentives, including retirement benefits and health care … retirement. It explores well-established relationships among economic circumstances, health, and mortality, as well as the … leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject. Among the broad topics discussed are work and retirement behavior …