attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

This paper analyses the short- and long-term effects of retirement on mental health in ten European countries. It …-fixed effects to deal with endogeneity in retirement behaviour. The results display no short-term effects of retirement on mental … health, but a large negative longer-term impact. This impact survives a battery of robustness tests, and applies to women and …

Following an era of a development towards earlier retirement, there has been a reversed trend to later exit from the … labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and … as much as the age group 50-54 at a particular level of health. We also provide evidence on the development of self …

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 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 …

patterns of older individuals across countries. We develop a life cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous …

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 …

Both the impacts of financial incentives and health on transitions into retirement and inactivity by older workers have … incentives on the retirement behaviour of workers who experienced health shocks and those who remained in good health. Our … evidence suggests that the impact on retirement of forward-looking incentive measures such as the peak value is conditional on …

uses a new source of longitudinal data on the health, labour force participation and retirement decisions of older New …Increasing life expectancies and uncertainty about future retirement incomes are likely to lead to various changes in … influenced by their health status (both mental and physical), in addition to a wide range of economic, social and demographic …