is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the "Health and Retirement Nexus" requires an …This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labour force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

This paper investigates the effects of increasing the eligibility age for public pension on workers' retirement … increases male employment at the critical ages by about 7-8 percentage points. Individual labor supply responses are …

retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men - especially those in lower-wage jobs - seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …

security systems on retirement behavior. In addition to measures of financial incentives induced by the social security systems … early retirement schemes. We find that financial incentives do not have a lot of explanatory power for the probability to … retire. In contrast, being eligible for early retirement substantially increases the chances for an individual to exit the …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

This paper analyses the short- and long-term effects of retirement on mental health in ten European countries. It …-fixed effects to deal with endogeneity in retirement behaviour. The results display no short-term effects of retirement on mental … health, but a large negative longer-term impact. This impact survives a battery of robustness tests, and applies to women and …

health status, we quantify the additional employment capacity of current older men in reference to the mortality-employment …Health capacity to work for the elderly is an essential piece of information for designing social policies in an aging … society. Here, we assess the health capacity to work of older men in South Korea and provide a cross-country comparison …

large gender disparities in employment rates, where having daughters also depresses the demand for formal care. In contrast … amidst the rise of female employment. …