Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Arbeitspapier

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the mandatory retirement age may thus not only have positive government income effects but also negative effects on increasing government health care expenditures.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8260

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Retirement; Retirement Policies ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
• Subject: health ; mortality ; inpatient care ; retirement ; health care ; pensions ; occupational pensions

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hallberg, Daniel ; Johansson, Per ; Josephson, Malin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98972
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET