This paper considers an employee's retirement intentions and its influencing factors. The role of conflicts that an … employee experiences with his/her boss and the role of his/her health status are analyzed using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) data. Estimation results show that conflicts matter as well as an individual's health status when considering the …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … is aligned with its actual consequence: retirement exerts a positive causal impact on health. …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … health events, proxied by unanticipated hospitalizations, to information on retirement decisions and actual incentives from …

This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry … status and health. We also contribute by comparing effects on different diagnoses for which disability pension was granted …, thus shedding some light on the biological mechanisms linking smoking to disability retirement. We demonstrate a strong …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on … the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …