health, suggesting that cognition is not a key driver of employment at these ages. …Estimates of the effect of health on employment differ significantly from study to study due to differences in method …, data, institutional background and health measure. We assess the importance of these differences using a unified framework …

, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … health and cognition; and health consists of subjective and objective measures. Also, it examines the extensive and intensive … magnitude. People suffering from ill health rarely adjust hours; they rather stop working altogether. Third, cognition is not …

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 … health, the cost of which is dependent on health insurance coverage. We find that the incentives faced by older workers …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

mental v.s. physical health in determining work. It combines regression and variance decomposition analyses to quantify the … respective role of mental v.s. physical health. The data used are from SHARE and inform in great detail on the health but also … accounting for older individuals' work. The paper also shows that health (physical or mental) is much better at predicting old …

education and are larger in the US than in England. Cognition has little added explanatory power once we control for health …Estimates of effect of health on employment differ from study to study due to differences in methods, data …, institutional background and health measure. We assess the importance of these differences, using a unified framework to interpret …

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

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …