Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267437 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15700
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the effect of postponing minimum retirement age on middle-aged workers' depression. Using pension reforms in several European countries and data from the SHARE survey, we find that depression increases with a longer work horizon, but only among workers employed in occupations with a relatively high risk of automation. We rule out alternatives to this risk, including job strenuousness, education, gender, and the degree of routinization of occupations. We explain our results with the higher job insecurity associated with occupations more exposed to automation.
Subjects: 
pension reforms
depression
automation
SHARE
JEL: 
I1
J24
J26
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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