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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages : Evidence from the United Kingdom
Banks, James W. - 2016
This paper estimates how much additional work capacity there might be among men and women aged between 55 and 74 in the United Kingdom, given their health, and how this has evolved over the last decade. The objective is not to suggest how much older people should work but rather to shed light on...
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages : Evidence from the U.S
Coile, Courtney - 2016
Public programs that benefit older individuals, such as Social Security and Medicare, may be changed in the future in ways that reflect an expectation of longer work lives. But do older Americans have the health capacity to work longer? This paper explores this question by asking how much older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999975
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Old-Age Labor Force Participation in Germany : What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017
retirement. Regarding women, whether public pension rules play a role is unclear. Most probably, the secular change of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942716
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Older Americans Would Work Longer If Jobs Were Flexible
Ameriks, John - 2018
schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932121
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The Effect of Physical and Cognitive Decline at Older Ages on Job Mismatch and Retirement
Hudomiet, Péter; Hurd, Michael D.; Rohwedder, Susann; … - 2021
job demands, potentially leading to early retirement. We link longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data to O …-limiting health problems, mental health, subjective probabilities of retirement, and labor market status. While we find that physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224356
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Why are Retirement Rates so High at Age 65?
Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Stock, James H.; Wise, David A. - 2021
In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243378
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Labor Force Entry and Exit of Older Men : A Longitudinal Study
Slade, Frederic P. - 2022
-sectional studies linking early retirement to increased Social Security income have also made explicit or implicit temporal projections … longitudinal data for men aged 58-62 in 1969 in order to trace changes in labor force behavior near retirement age. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323490
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Why Retirement, Social Security, and Age Discrimination Policies Need to Consider the Intersectional Experiences of Older Women
Burn, Ian; Button, Patrick; Figinski, Theodore F.; … - 2022
respect to work, retirement, Social Security, and age discrimination law. We present estimates of poverty by age and sex … summarize research on how older women were differentially negatively impacted by the elimination of Social Security’s Retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309795
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Contract Work at Older Ages
Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - 2022
The share of workers who are self-employed rises markedly with age. Given policy concerns about inadequate retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324706
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Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom
Banks, James W. - 2011
Over the last thirty years pathways to retirement have changed substantially in the UK. They have been dominated by …. At the end of the period the direct route from work to retirement was increasingly more common. General economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125168