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Recessions, Older Workers, and Longevity : How Long Are Recessions Good For Your Health?
Coile, Courtney C. - 2012
also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these … explore potential mechanisms for this health effect. Our results indicate that experiencing a recession in one's late 50s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460299
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Shocks, Institutions and Secular Changes in Employment of Older Individuals
Rogerson, Richard Donald; Wallenius, Johanna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Employment rates of males aged 55-64 have changed dramatically in the OECD over the last 5 decades. The average employment rate decreased by more than 15 percentage points between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, only to increase by roughly the same amount subsequently. One proposed explanation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585398
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Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers through the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Goda, Gopi Shah; Jackson, Emilie; Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a large and immediate drop in employment among US workers, along with major expansions of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to study employment among older adults and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435129
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226134
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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy A. - 2008
expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464212
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State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Lahey, Joanna - 2006
Some anti-discrimination laws have the perverse effect of harming the very class they were meant to protect. This paper provides evidence that age discrimination laws belong to this perverse class. Prior to the enforcement of the federal law, state laws had little effect on older workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466621
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A Structural Analysis of the Effects of the Great Recession on Retirement and Working Longer by Members of Two-Earner Households
Gustman, Alan L. - 2016
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate a structural model of household retirement and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455696
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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?
Neumark, David - 2013
We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on older workers. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy to compare older workers in states with stronger and weaker laws, to their younger counterparts, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459447
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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421233
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Unemployment Disrupts Sleep
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
on individuals' health and wellbeing, there is relatively little evidence of their impact on sleep. Using data for over 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481117