title: [Tailored pension age].
abstract: Socio-economic inequalities in health have important consequences for employment and pensions. Less well educated people are often more unhealthy than those with a higher level of education. As a consequence, they are more likely to lose their jobs, and this in turn has negative effects on their health. Less well educated people lose more than 2 years of working life due to problems with their health; among those with higher level of education this loss is approximately 0.4 years. The influence of retirement on health shows some interesting differences; lower educated people seem to experience better health after retirement, while retirement seems to have a negative effect on the self-assessed experience of health among people with the highest level of education. From a population-health perspective the time has come to consider a made-to-measure age of retirement.
authors.affiliation: Erasmus MC, afd. Maatschappelijke Gezondheidszorg, Rotterdam.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burdorf
authors.forename: Merel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schuring
authors.forename: Suzan W J
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Robroek
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010415:Pensions; D012179:Retirement; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors