‘Salud, consumo e incentivos en la transición a la inactividad en las familias’

Alfonso Sánchez Martín, Cristina Vilaplana Prieto, Hugo Benítez Silva, José María Labeaga Azcona, Rubén Osuna Guerrero.

Specifically, the present project will analyse:

(i) the individual’s transit to inactivity and its relationship to pension system rules

(ii) the transit of partners to inactivity and its relationship to health status

(iii) the effects of health and unemployment shocks on consumption patterns during the transit to inactivity

(iv) the existence and causes of classification errors in the granting of disability pensions

(v) individual responses to health shocks at advanced ages.

Particular attention will go to the role of public benefit rules and the evaluation of possible reforms of both the pension system and the way disability pensions are decided. One suggested way forward is the use of multiple information sources: social security work histories, ongoing household budget surveys, the National Statistics Office’s disability survey, etc.