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This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …
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for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …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 …
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We study effects of financial incentives on the retirement age using stated preference data. Dutch survey respondents … were given hypothetical retirement scenarios describing age(s) of (partial and full) retirement and replacement rate(s). A … the income and substitution effects of pensions as a function of the retirement age are substantial and larger than …
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, to stay in the workforce longer when having elderly dependents in the household, and to postpone retirement …
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The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …
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retirement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s instead freed positions and created employment opportunities. Finally, we show that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom …
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and accrual elasticities in individuals' retirement decisions. Next, we use these elasticities to estimate a dynamic … programming model of retirement decisions. Finally, we use the estimated model to examine the labor supply and welfare …
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We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...
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We study the transitions from career to bridge jobs and to permanent retirement by European males aged 55 to 70 at the … States. We also show that the exogenous increases in minimum retirement age that occurred during the past twenty years have … transitions into retirement. In the South, transitions into permanent retirement have decreased, with no significant effect on …
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