RT Generic
T1 Health status and retirement decisison for older european couples
A1 Jiménez-Martín, Sergi
A1 Labeaga, José M.
A1 Martínez-Granado, Maite
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB In this paper we use data the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to describe and analyse the dynamics of joint labour force behaviour of older couples for the EUI2 countries. We focus on three main issues: the relanvance of joint retirement across EUI2 countries, the existence of complementarities in leisure and/or assortative matting and the effects of health variables. Concerning the evidence, we first find that a working spouse is more likely to retire the more recently the other spouse has retired; this effect is stronger if the wife is the working spouse. Second, there is evidence of assortative mating and/or complementarities in leisure; the effects of all relevant factors on the retirement decision of one spouse depend strongly on whether the other one is working, unemployed, or retired. Third, besides the standard evidence that poor health increases the retirement probabiliby, we find that the husband's health affects the couple's retirement decisions much more strongly than the wife's health does. Additional asymmetric effects are detected with respect to income related variables.
SN 2340-5031
YR 1999
FD 1999-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6170
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6170
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 30 abr. 2024