We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …

Health capacity to work for the elderly is an essential piece of information for designing social policies in an aging … society. Here, we assess the health capacity to work of older men in South Korea and provide a cross-country comparison … health status, we quantify the additional employment capacity of current older men in reference to the mortality …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …

This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an … percent of their annual income. The paper further shows that the negative income shock had no impact on the health of …

productivity due to disability, prompts more people to choose physically intense occupations. Using data from the Health and … Retirement Study (HRS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS), I estimate a dynamic model of occupational choice and retirement …-collar and white-collar occupations in the effects of declining health and disability on productivity, which affects labor supply …

-recovery process can account for such reverse retirement behavior that cannot be generated by health and wealth shocks alone … and timing of re-entry and characteristics of those who re-enter using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) panel data. We …Partial and reverse retirement are two key behaviors characterizing labor force dynamics for individuals at older ages …

it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key … determinants (gender, childhood health, parental longevity). It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that … distribution of health at an older age. In a world where retirement policy compensates for career-related arduousness there would …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the 1992-1998 Health and Retirement Study. Measured … in the 1969-1979 Retirement History Survey is reduced from 18 percentage point to 11 percentage points in the Health and … retirement differs with the definition of retirement used and among various groups analyzed. Twenty-two percent of the sample …

failing health drives retirement. We exploit the panel dimension of the 1991-93-97 waves of the China Health and Nutrition …Deborah Davis-Friedmann (1991) described the "retirement" pattern of the Chinese elderly in the prereform era as … metaphor of ceaseless toil in a labor supply model, where we highlight the role of age and deteriorating health. The empirical …

receive health benefits from their employers, especially when those benefits do not continue after retirement. As a result, an … increase in the age of Medicare eligibility might affect retirement behavior by relating the health insurance costs of … retirement to labor supply decisions. The insurance cost of retirement is the increase in health insurance premiums that workers …