Research Group

Labor Demography

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Determinants and Consequences of Retirement

Peter Eibich, Angelo Lorenti, Julian Schmied; in Collaboration with Léontine Goldzahl (EDHEC Business School, Roubaix, France), Thomas Siedler (Universität Hamburg, Germany), Irene Mosca (Maynooth University, Ireland), Ricky Kanabar (University of Bath, United Kingdom), Alexander Plum (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Detailed Description

Many high-income countries are increasing the retirement age to encourage older workers to remain active in the labor market. Yet, health and labor-force participation at older ages are closely intertwined. It is thus important to understand how health and health behaviors shape labor-market trajectories at these ages. Moreover, retirees provide important unpaid work in many societies, e.g., by constituting a large part of the volunteer workforce or by providing informal care. Examining how retirement affects the behavior of older people is therefore important to fully understand potential externalities of longer working lives.

We study how health and health behavior affect the timing of labor-force exits among older workers, as well as the effects of retirement on the behavior of older people. We disentangle the complex relationship between health and labor-market participation using state-of-the-art methods for causal inference, such as regression discontinuity design.

Publications

Kanabar, R.; Mazur, A.; Plum, A.; Schmied, J.:

Correlates of testosterone change as men age

The Aging Male 25:1, 29–40. (2022)    

Hale, J. M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Lorenti, A.:

Does postponing retirement affect cognitive function? A counterfactual experiment to disentangle life course risk factors

SSM-Population Health 15:100855, 1–12. (2021)    

Eibich, P.; Goldzahl, L.:

Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-011. (2020)    

Eibich, P.; Kanabar, R.; Plum, A.; Schmied, J.:

In and out of unemployment - labour market dynamics and the role of testosterone

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-033. (2020)    

Eibich, P.; Lorenti, A.; Mosca, I.:

Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-015. (2020)    

Eibich, P.; Siedler, T.:

Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility

European Economic Review 124:103392, 1–41. (2020)    

Hale, J. M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Lorenti, A.:

Does postponing retirement affect cognitive function? A counterfactual experiment to disentangle life course risk factors

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-013. (2020)    

Pedron, S.; Maier, W.; Peters, A.; Linkohr, B.; Meisinger, C.; Rathmann, W.; Eibich, P.; Schwettmann, L.:

The effect of retirement on biomedical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

Economics & Human Biology. forthcoming. (2020)