Early retirement and post retirement health

Daniel Hallberg, Per Johansson and Malin Josephson ()
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Malin Josephson: the Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF), Postal: Department of Medical Sciences, University of Uppsala, Occupational and Environmental Medicine

No 2014:5, Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: 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

Keywords: Health; mortality; inpatient care; retirement; health care; pensions; occupational pensions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J22 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2014-06-04
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