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 investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals …

Estimates of effect of health on employment differ from study to study due to differences in methods, data …, institutional background and health measure. We assess the importance of these differences, using a unified framework to interpret … and contrast estimate for the US and England. We find that subjective and objective health measures, and subjective …

countries from the Survey of Health, Retirement and Ageing in Europe (SHARE), I find that retiring both at the normal and early …I use a fixed effects instrumental variable approach to determine the effect retirement has on health. The exogenous … otherwise endogenous retirement decision. Six health aspects are considered: self-assessed health, depression, limitations in …

retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 European countries. We identify partner's and own retirement …This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the causal effect of spousal … effects by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design using retirement eligibility as exogenous instruments for spousal …

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 …

contribution” health plans that cap employers' health costs. While there are similarities between “defined contribution” retirement … Washington, DC, on May 14, 2015, on the future of defined contribution health and retirement plans. Experts from a cross … with “DC benefits” with both health and retirement plans, and what “The Road Ahead” looks like. This paper summarizes the …

In this study, using panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate the … variables are specified in the model, retirement is shown to have small, unstable impacts on mental health. Notably, adults who … levels of depression of European adults around the time of retirement. Fixed-effect models are employed to control for …

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 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 …