The degree to which retirement decisions are driven by health is a key concern for both
academics and policy makers. In this review, we survey the economic literature on the health …

In this chapter, we review the evidence on retirement and study the role of incentives in the
retirement decision. The key patterns of withdrawal from the labor market are presented and …

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is one of the most important reforms of the US health
insurance system since the introduction of Medicare. Because employment is a main source …

Estimates of how health affects employment vary considerably. We assess how different
methods and health measures impact estimates of the impact of health on employment …

We present and empirically implement an equilibrium labor market search model where risk-
averse workers facing medical expenditure shocks are matched with firms making health …

Estimates of effect of health on employment differ from study to study due to differences in
methods, data, institutional background and health measure. We assess the importance of …

This paper develops and estimates a life‐cycle equilibrium labor search model in which
heterogeneous firms determine health insurance provisions and heterogeneous workers …

Health and employment are strongly correlated. This paper reviews the existing evidence
and brings in new evidence on the following issues:(a) the measurement of health;(b) the …

We assess the quality of the HRS's measures of out-of-pocket medical spending and health
insurance premia, both in the “core interviews” and in the “exit interview” data. We provide …

We develop and estimate an equilibrium model with heterogeneous local markets,
households, and firms, highlighting the inter-relationship between various components of …