The Impact of Retirement on Health in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID11968673
AuthorsEhsan Latif (0000-0002-9665-5452, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume38
Issue1
Pages15-29
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cpp.38.1.15
PMID22830090
OpenAlexW2087776562
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited11

This study estimates the impact of retirement on subsequent health outcomes as measured by self-reported health status. The empirical study is based on seven longitudinal waves of the Canadian National Population Health Survey, spanning 1994 through 2006. To account for biases due to unobserved individual-specific heterogeneity, this study uses a fixed-effects method. The results indicate that retirement has a positive but insignificant impact on self-reported health status. The study further examined this issue using different subgroups based on gender and income and again found that retirement has no significant impact on health status

Demographic economics · Economics · Health and Retirement Study · Longitudinal study · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Gerontology

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