Health Shocks and the Hazard Rate of Early Retirement in the ECHP

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-335

  Hagan, Ronald ^a   Jones, Andrew M ^b   Rice, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ECHP; European Union; H55; Health; I12; J26; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953541708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22356282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03399257     Document Type: Article

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