1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the … not for females. This effect persists when we include controls for onset of other health conditions, two of which are …

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 …

white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement policies could be designed to provide a fair and aggregate welfare … increase in replacement rates of blue-collar workers. If the statutory retirement age is sufficiently high or the life … retirement incentives. …

We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime … utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life … expectancy magnifies the negative effect on the lifetime utility of those who suffer low longevity. Furthermore, when the income …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the … early retirement behavior in three periods (pre-liberalization, announcement, and implementation) for three groups of … retirement in MRA is not explained by more firms' exits, nor by more early retirement among the exiting firms. It is rather the …

In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …

We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full …-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension … joint retirement, which is driven by older spouses working longer. Accounting for these age differences reveals a strong …

This paper develops a general equilibrium life-cycle model with endogenous retirement and disability risk, in order to … analysis focus on the increase in the normal retirement age (NRA) from age 65 to 67 (Reform 2007) and the recent increase in … hardly any attention in the public pension debate in Germany. Our simulation results indicate that with current eligibility …

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 …