Later retirement, job strain, and health: Evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_A888736534FA
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Later retirement, job strain, and health: Evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom.
Journal
Health economics
Author(s)
Carrino L., Glaser K., Avendano M.
ISSN
1099-1050 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1057-9230
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
29
Number
8
Pages
891-912
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of raising the State Pension age on women's health. Exploiting a UK pension reform that increased women's State Pension age for up to 6 years since 2010, we show that raising the State Pension age leads to an increase of up to 12 percentage points in the probability of depressive symptoms, alongside an increase in self-reported medically diagnosed depression among women in a lower occupational grade. Our results suggest that these effects are driven by prolonged exposure to high-strain jobs characterised by high demands and low control. Effects are consistent across multiple subcomponents of the General Health Question and Short-Form-12 (SF-12) scores, and robust to alternative empirical specifications, including "placebo" analyses for women who never worked and for men.
Keywords
Female, Humans, Male, Occupations, Pensions, Retirement, United Kingdom/epidemiology, economics of ageing, public health, public pensions, social security, understanding society
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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19/10/2021 6:40
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