Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). …

retirement regulations moderate the effects, thus emphasizing the importance of maintaining good physical health in old age for …Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This …

Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper applies two widely used methods to estimate the additional health capacity to work. The … to explore the health capacity to work among older persons. Using census data and data from the China Health and … results confirm large untapped work capacity in the population of older persons, but the additional health capacity to work is …