Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also …Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …

Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant … empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by … which housing deprivation affects health, namely, neighborhood effects and the effects of the individual dwelling unit …

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …

English Abstract Alarmed by the worsening health for middle-aged baby-boomers in the US, we conduct a cohort analysis … of health deficits similar to Abeliansky and Strulik (2019) but focus on middle-aged individuals. As opposed to previous … findings, we find that health among the middle-aged has stalled, and in some cases worsened, for the more recent birth cohorts …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We examine the value added of … objective health variables in relation to potentially endogenous self-reported health. We approach the endogeneity of self …-reported health as an omitted variables problem. In line with the literature on the reliability of self-reported health, ambiguous …

five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for …In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use … accumulate health deficits faster than workers from the second (high status) group. We instrument retirement by statutory …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of …

attention to the rules of retirement in Hungary since 1990. In every pension system, there exist two rules which determine how … the lifetime contribution (which is approximately proportional to the years of contributions) and the retirement age … a mandatory life insurance and life annuity system. More generally, we speak of flexible retirement if adding a year to …