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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)...
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. Because the probability of re-employment, conditional on unemployment, appears to have declined with age, the probability of …
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We explore recent trends in the labour force participation rates of men aged 55-69 in Canada. Following steady declines in participation until the mid-1990s, the participation rates of older men have increased substantially and have reached historically high rates among those aged 65-69. We...
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changes to the institutional framework of relevance for labor market participation and employment. Drawing on data from the …
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The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation - from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase...
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Older adults have the highest rates of many health conditions for which medical marijuana may be effective in moderating symptoms and are at elevated risk of reducing labor supply due to poor health. Surprisingly little is known about how this group responds to medical marijuana laws. We provide...
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'counterfactual' employment rate for older people based on the behaviour of other similarly healthy individuals. Both methods suggest … recent years for women (and possibly also for men). This latter finding suggests that the increase in employment rates among …
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The labor force participation rate of older men under age 65 has shown a significant recent decline. Cross-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections of changes in participation in response to changes in...
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savings, especially among those with lower education, and the resulting interest in encouraging employment at older ages, it … is important to understand the role that self-employment arrangements play in facilitating work among seniors. New data … from a survey module fielded on a Gallup telephone survey distinguish independent contractor work from other self-employment …
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