Health and Early Retirement: Evidence from French Data for individuals

Thomas Barnay (1, 2) , Karine Briard (3)

1 TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques
2 ERUDITE - Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique
3 CNAV - CNAV

Health status during the working life plays a major role in the retirement decision. Significant links between professional paths, retirement age and retirement conditions (disability pension, inability pension, reduced-rate pension, or full rate by age) can be highlighted by logistic models regressions and a typology of the professional careers of the 1940-generation of the French Social Security insured, whose the insurance period is insufficient to fulfill the full-rate pension criterion.

Mots clés: Health status; retirement decision; professional paths; retirement age

Domaines: Economies et finances

Thomas Barnay, Karine Briard. Health and Early Retirement: Evidence from French Data for individuals. Economics Bulletin, 2011. ⟨hal-01297822⟩