; retirement ; disability insurance ; health … cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in …

This paper summarizes and compares measures of chronic diseases and medical conditions in the Health and Retirement … Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA), the Japanese Study on Aging … and Retirement (JSTAR), the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), and the Longitudinal Aging Study in …

Retirement Study (HRS), the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE), the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA), the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the …This User Guide provides information about measures of well-being available in since 2002 in the US Health and …

patterns of older individuals across countries. We develop a life cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous …

to the statutory retirement age. In a first section we look at the income mix of early retirees and senior workers from a … their working life before and during the recent economic crisis using the micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study … gender perspective taking into account the disposable household income. In a second section, we apply multinominal logistic …

. Here we show that social security income (i.e., income from public, industry-wide, insurance-based, retirement and …Work in the marketplace is the primary source of income for most households in modern industrialized societies. A … the United States) we consider and less so for men who exit at younger ages. Private pension income in the United States …

force. We examine, in four countries, labor force exits at various ages and present evidence on household income from … various sources before and after the exit occurs. We focus on the rate at which household income is replaced through public … household income, after taxes and transfers, before and after labor force exits, not only is economic well-being greater but …

benefits across countries and within countries. We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study and the Survey of … Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. This allows us to use a quasi-experimental approach where variations in public …How does retirement influence subjective well-being? Some studies suggest retirement does not affect subjective well …