five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for …In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use … accumulate health deficits faster than workers from the second (high status) group. We instrument retirement by statutory …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

Using data from the fifth wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this study investigates the …