Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the working environment as determinant retirement (section “Working Conditions Determinants Retirement”) and its role mediator health effects “The Health Effect Retirement”). In first Section on Retirement”, we summarize studies showing that having a good job is important aspect individuals’ decisions. Mostly positive conditions appear to contribute...

In this paper absence behavior in relation to working environment is studied. A theoretical model is built in order to separate the e¤ects on voluntary absence and absence related to ill health where health e¤ects are assumed to be tied to working conditions. The model also gives a testable hypothesis of compensating wage di¤erentials. A panel of quarterly ...rm level data from 1990-1998 is uti...