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Empirical research on health, ageing and retirement in Europe
— introduction | | Author(s) | Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 19, no 4, October 2009 |
| Pages | pp 293-300 |
| Source | http://esp.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Ageing process ; Economic status [elderly] ; Demography ; European Union ; Cross national surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | In this introduction to this issue of Journal of European Social Policy (JESP), the authors first sketch what we know and what we do not know about the adaptation process to a society with a large proportion of older individuals. They develop a framework of empirical analysis which exploits the power of multidisciplinary, longitudinal and cross-national comparative data collection. Second, they provide a brief overview of SHARE (the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe). The 2004-05 baseline wave and the first longitudinal wave of SHARE collected in 2006-07 provide data on the life circumstances of some 45,000 individuals aged 50 and over in 14 European countries. SHARE constitutes a unique data infrastructure for researchers from various disciplines - notably economics, sociology and health - to better understand the individual and population ageing process. Third, the authors introduce the five studies in this issue of JESP to show that the multidisciplinary, longitudinal and cross-national comparative data of SHARE permit a much better understanding of ageing and retirement in Europe than was possible before. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091117203 A |
| Classmark | CC: L: BG: F:W: S8: WFC: 3K: 74 |
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