Arbeitspapier
Fatal attraction? Access to early retirement and mortality
We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to withdraw from the workforce up to 3.5 years earlier than those in non-eligible regions. For males, instrumental-variable estimates show a significant 2.4 percentage points (about 13%) increase in the probability of dying before age 67. We do not find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher incidence ofcardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain increased mortality among male early retirees.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5160
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Retirement; Retirement Policies
- Thema
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early retirement
mortality
premature death
health behavior
endogeneity
instrumental variable
Flexible Altersgrenze
Sterblichkeit
Arbeiter
Instrumentalvariablen-Schätzmethode
Schätzung
Österreich
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kuhn, Andreas
Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe
Zweimüller, Josef
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kuhn, Andreas
- Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe
- Zweimüller, Josef
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2010