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 …

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 … response patterns. The usefulness of the health indexes is then investigated by including it in some simple retirement models …

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 …

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 …

Many recent reforms raise the age of retirement. But can all older individuals work longer? To answer that question … this paper uses the European SHARE survey. Results are essentially fivefold. First, physical health and cognitive … performance deteriorate with age. Second, the 50-54 employment rate is negatively impacted by ill health, less so by poor …

, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical …The cost of old-age dependency leads to reforms aimed at raising the age or retirement. But do older individuals have … the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? This paper asks how much older individuals (55-75) could work if they worked …

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 ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …