Estimates of the effect of health on employment differ significantly from study to study due to differences in method …, data, institutional background and health measure. We assess the importance of these differences using a unified framework … to interpret and contrast estimates of the impact of health on employment based on various measures of health and …

foster improvements in retirees’ health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily …Retirement offers the opportunity to give up potentially risky, unhealthy, and/or stressful work, which is expected to … adopt unhealthy behaviors. Depending on the relative importance of the different mechanisms, retirement may either improve …

retirement. Apart from direct health effects, the results also reveal behavioral changes in the utilization of healthcare … countries, these debates grow in intensity with the aging of the population; however, an increase in retirement age may create … unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early …

In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use … five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for … accumulate health deficits faster than workers from the second (high status) group. We instrument retirement by statutory …