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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 …
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performance deteriorate with age. Second, the 50-54 employment rate is negatively impacted by ill health, less so by poor … cognition. Third, ill health affects employment much more than hours. Fourth, there is no evidence of health justification bias … this paper uses the European SHARE survey. Results are essentially fivefold. First, physical health and cognitive …
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cognitive decline. Second, ill health negatively impacts employment, but less the hours worked. People with ill health rarely … the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? This paper asks how much older individuals (55-75) could work if they worked … as much as their younger (50-54) counterparts in similar health/with equal cognition. It uses international, European …
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Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …
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distributing health products as common goods (section 3). Our overall ambition being to highlight that the deployment of the …
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Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability insurance programs can also play a significant...
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This paper shows that labor income plays an important positive role for the decision to work after retirement. Especially individuals who have the chance to substantially supplement their pension entitlements have a higher earnings elasticity. Men are more attracted by earnings incentives than...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women …
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Cross-country variation in effective retirement age is usually attributed to institutional differences that affect individuals’ incentives to retire. This paper suggests a different approach to explain this variation. Since working individuals in different occupations naturally retire at...
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We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...
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