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 …

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 …

rnarket status is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the 'Health and Retirement Nexus …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be …

explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … needed to equalize expected health at the moment of retirement. Results point at the need for a very high degree of … retirement age differentiation would fail to match a significant portion of the full distribution of health status. In a world …