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

Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere …Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf … Ruhestand anhand des gesetzlichen Rentenalters ("normal" und "früh") und stellen fest, dass die Gesundheit von Arbeitnehmern in …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to …Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we … retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims …

dorsopathies). The results show that increasing the retirement age further should be accompanied by preventive health and education …In the policy debate, there are regular demands to further increase the retirement age to address the financial … challenges for the pension system. However, a prolonged working life impacts a person’s health. Detailed data from the statutory …

waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …

Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European …We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the … spring and summer (compared to autumn). At given age, they have developed about 3.5 percent more health deficits. The bulk of …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …

Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper applies two widely used methods to estimate the additional health capacity to work. The … to explore the health capacity to work among older persons. Using census data and data from the China Health and … results confirm large untapped work capacity in the population of older persons, but the additional health capacity to work is …