Sick of work or too sick to work? Evidence on self-reported health shocks and early retirement from the BHPS

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 866-880

  Jones, Andrew M ^a   Rice, Nigel ^a   Roberts, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete time duration models; Generalised ordered probit; Health; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953545318     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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