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Persistent, Consistent, and Widespread?: Another Look at Recent Trends in Old-Age Disability.
Schoeni, Robert F.; Freedman, Vicki A.; Wallace, Robert B. - RAND - 2000
This study provides new evidence on trends in disability among the elderly from 1982 to 1996. Logistics analysis is used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for age, sex, and proxy reporting. The sample includes 124,949 people ages 70 and older in the 1982-1996...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526925
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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2006
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers …, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to … the dynamic patterns of employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545498
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Wages, Employment and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Indonesia.
Smith, James P.; Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; … - RAND - 2000
crisis on labor market outcomes. Aggregate employment has remained remarkably robust through the crisis although there has … been significant switching within sectors. The drama of the crisis lies not in aggregate employment but in real hourly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545531