Financial Incentives, Health and Retirement in Spain / Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Judit Vall Castelló.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Gómez, Pilar.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi.

Vall Castelló, Judit.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19913.

NBER working paper series no. w19913

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.

Summary:

In this work we combine wage data from Social Security working histories and health information available in the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe to explore the link between health, financial incentives and retirement in Spain. Our results show that individuals in worse health quintiles are, indeed, the more responsive to financial incentives as they prove to be less likely to retire when incentives to continue working increase.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2014.