Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Kühn, Andreas; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef

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“…Hernaes et al (2013) report a 95% confidence interval that ranges from −0.78-1.18% points compared to −0.73 to 1.41 in this study. In another related study, Kuhn et al (2010) find that the introduction of more generous early retirement rules for Austrian blue-collar workers had a significant effect on mortality among male workers, but no effect among female workers. For women, Kuhn et al (2010) report that one additional year spent in early retirement results in a 0.02% point increase in mortality at age 67.…”

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“…First, workers who anticipate that there are financial incentives to retire at a certain age may adjust their behavior before retirement (Coe and Lindeboom 2008). Second, absent any behavioral response, workers who are subject to different retirement rules may differ with respect to unobserved variables (Kuhn et al 2010). For example, individuals with a bad latent health state might be more likely to choose jobs where they can retire early.…”

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“…3 Now, 5 months of additional work is 2 Coe and Lindeboom (2008), Bloemen et al (2013), andHallberg et al (2015) find that (early) retirement is associated with an improvement in well-being. An exception is Kuhn et al (2010), who find that access to more generous early retirement rules increased mortality among male blue-collar workers in Austria. 3 For example, Mastrobuoni (2009) and Song and Manchester (2007) show that the labor force exit in the USA amount to about half the age increase.…”

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The effects of increasing the normal retirement age on health care utilization and mortality

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2017

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This essay estimates the health effects of increasing the normal retirement age using Swedish administrative data on drug prescriptions, hospitalizations, and mortality. To this end, I use a reform that raised the age at which broad categories of Swedish local government workers were entitled to retire with full pension benefits from 63 to 65. Estimating the effect of the reform on individuals' health within the age range 65-69, the results show no evidence that the reform impacted mortality or health care utilization. Increasing the normal retirement age may thus have positive government income effects without seriously affecting short to medium run government health care expenditures.

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The effects of increasing the normal retirement age on health care utilization and mortality

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2017

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“…Rohwedder and Willis (2010), Mazzonna and Peracchi (2012), Bonsang et al (2013) and Bingley and Martinello (2013) all find that retirement leads to a decrease in cognitive functions. Kuhn et al (2010) report increased mortality upon retirement. Snyder and Evans (2006) conclude that employment past retirement age decreases mortality.…”

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Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity

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2015

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“…The direction of such an effect is not clear, however. Kuhn, Wuellrich and Zweimüller (2010) find a significant increase in mortality from early retirement for male blue-collar workers in Austria, but no effect for females. Coe and Lindeboom (2008) find no detrimental effects of early retirement on health and, if anything, a slight short-term improvement.…”

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Screening Stringency in the Disability Insurance Program

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2014

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) is a research institute under the Swedish Ministry of Employment, situated in Uppsala. IFAU's objective is to promote, support and carry out scientific evaluations. The assignment includes: the effects of labour market and educational policies, studies of the functioning of the labour market and the labour market effects of social insurance policies. IFAU shall also disseminate its results so that they become accessible to different interested parties in Sweden and abroad. Terms of use: Documents inIFAU also provides funding for research projects within its areas of interest. The deadline for applications is October 1 each year. Since the researchers at IFAU are mainly economists, researchers from other disciplines are encouraged to apply for funding.IFAU is run by a Director-General. The institute has a scientific council, consisting of a chairman, the Director-General and five other members. Among other things, the scientific council proposes a decision for the allocation of research grants. A reference group including representatives for employer organizations and trade unions, as well as the ministries and authorities concerned is also connected to the institute. Papers published in the Working Paper Series should, according to the IFAU policy, have been discussed at seminars held at IFAU and at least one other academic forum, and have been read by one external and one internal referee. They need not, however, have undergone the standard scrutiny for publication in a scientific journal. The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to provide a factual basis for public policy and the public policy discussion. AbstractWe propose a strategy for assessing how the inflow to the disability insurance program has been governed over time. We analyze the ex-ante health of individuals entering the program, compared to individuals not entering the program in the same year, by using ex-post mortality. Applying the strategy to Sweden, we find large variation in the relative health of new beneficiaries compared to non-beneficiaries over time. Some of the fluctuations correspond well to formal changes to screening stringency. However, we also find large variation in health during periods when no changes to formal eligibility criteria have been pursued.

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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Cited by 51 publications

References 47 publications

The effects of increasing the normal retirement age on health care utilization and mortality

The effects of increasing the normal retirement age on health care utilization and mortality

Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity

Screening Stringency in the Disability Insurance Program

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