, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … health and cognition; and health consists of subjective and objective measures. Also, it examines the extensive and intensive … magnitude. People suffering from ill health rarely adjust hours; they rather stop working altogether. Third, cognition is not …

health, suggesting that cognition is not a key driver of employment at these ages. …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 …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … find that in Western Germany alone each new chemical entity has on average saved around 200 working years in every year of … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …