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The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Labor Force Transitions of Older Workers
Bound, John - 1998
This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor force transitions, including labor force exit, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472036
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What Explains Low Old-Age Income? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Mitchell, Olivia S.; Clark, Robert L.; Lusardi, Annamaria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as they aged. We focus on low income older adults and follow them over time to identify the factors associated with having low income at baseline and thereafter. We find that (a)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510599
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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2016
cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456072
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435130
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Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2009
We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental conditions affect individual's health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in the biologic and physiologic literature that indicate that cumulative exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463529
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Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement : Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?
Dwyer, Debra Sabatini - 1998
We explore alternative measures of unobserved health status in order to identify effects of mental and physical capacity for work on older men's retirement. Traditional self-ratings of poor health are tested against more objectively measured instruments. Using the Health and Retirement Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472300
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Educational, Labor-market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2019
We study whether childhood health capital affects school attendance, long-run occupational outcomes, and intergenerational mobility. We address this question in the context of London, England during the late-nineteenth century using the inpatient admission records of three large hospitals linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480313
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Self-Employment and Labor Force Participation of Older Males (Revised)
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1980
changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478545
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Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden
Palme, Mårten - 2018
measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481041
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Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Germany
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2020
As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481373