additional years of life between work and retirement is questionable. Considering mortality and health status, we question the … for given mortality rates; the other using the work/health relationship measured at certain ages to predict the health … health status that can be considered reasonably compatible with work. If this is not the case, the idea of sharing these …

to reduce incentives to retire early. However, it is unknown to what extent older individuals have the health capacity to … sustain the longer working lives that delayed pension benefits may encourage. We estimate the health capacity to work longer … in Denmark by comparing how much older individuals work today with how much those with similar mortality rates worked in …

work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … on individual-level objective and subjective health and socioeconomic parameters as predictors …

mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these …

incorporates differences in consumption, leisure, health, and mortality. We find large disparities in welfare that have increased … over time. Incorporating the cost of living with poor health into elderly welfare substantially increases the overall … inequality. Moreover, health is a better indicator of an individual’s relative welfare position than income or consumption …

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the … first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one …

to examine the health capacity to work at aged 50 and above. This study finds that, first, the health status of the … participation rate has not seen an equivalent increase alongside the improvement in health. Second, the gap in labor force …

mortality rate worked in the past, and (ii) how much could older adults extend their working lives if their health status … would people today with a given mortality rate or life expectancy work if they were to work as much as those with the same … improved. The results point to a sizable health capacity to work (HCW) among both older Korean men and women. Furthermore, the …