| Title | Retirement and cognitive development: are the retired really inactive? |
|---|---|
| Published in | RM/12/009. |
| Author | Grip, de Andries; Dupuy, Arnaud; Jolles, Jelle; Boxtel, van Martin |
| Date | 2012 |
| Reference(s) | Cognitive decline, Labor market activity, Retirement |
| Type | working paper |
| Publisher | Maastricht University |
| Abstract | This paper uses longitudinal test data to analyze the relation between retirement and cognitive development. Controlling for individ- ual xed e¤ects, we nd that retirees face greater declines in infor- mation processing speed than those who remain employed. Since the decline in information processing speed after retirement holds particularly for the low educated, activating these persons after retirement could lower the social costs of an aging society |
| Publication | http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?did=28246 |
| Persistent Identifier | urn:nbn:nl:ui:27-28246 |
| Metadata | XML |
| Repository | Maastricht University |
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