論文題目：Occupational Retirement and Social Security Reform: the Roles of Physical and Cognitive Health
摘要：Skill-biased technical change leads jobs to be less physically demanding whereas require more cognitive abilities, but existing research on retirement pays little attention on the cognitive dimension of health. This paper first explores occupational facts in ability requirements, multiple dimensions of health, and their interactive relationship in retirement. Based on these facts, this paper proposes and estimates a dynamic structural model of individual retirement and saving decisions, incorporating both physical and cognitive dimensions of health and allowing their retirement effects to differ across occupations via four channels respectively: leisure, wage, medical expenditure and life expectancy. I use indirect inference for estimation, using variants of auxiliary models to exploit either pooled variations or only within-individual variations to identify the model. The counterfactual results suggest cognitive health has little retirement effect for manual workers, whereas for clerical workers it is as vital as physical health. Leisure and life expectancy are more important channels. When retirement age increases, manual workers would actually delay retirement more than professionals. This is not due to their health capacity but instead to their fnancial rigidity in deciding when to retire.
時間：2020年11月26日（周四）12:00——14:00
地點：文泉樓南207
主講人簡介：
文家奕，廈門大學澳门永利集团304官网手机與王亞南經濟研究院助理教授。2018年博士畢業于西班牙貨币與金融研究中心（CEMFI）。曾在美國聯邦儲備銀行（紐約）、西班牙央行、國家發改委宏觀經濟研究院有過短期訪問和研究經曆。目前主持國家自然科學基金（青年項目）一項。他的研究興趣主要在于老齡化、老年人儲蓄與退休行為、生命周期模型，以及其他勞動、公共和健康經濟學的問題。
