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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...

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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap

Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....

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Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection

Chrostek, Paweł; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment … EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and … non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups …

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The Link between Health and Working Longer : Disparities in Work Capacity

Berger, Benjamin; Lopez Garcia, Italo; Maestas, Nicole; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Good health is important for employment at older ages. However, little is known about how health-related functional …. However, gaps in work capacity by education are large and increase with age, suggesting diminished prospects for working … longer among those with less education. Although work capacity among Black respondents improves across cohorts, today …

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The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs

Acemoglu, Daron; Mühlbach, Nicolaj Søndergaard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

employment in above-average age-friendly occupations has risen by 49 million. However, older workers have not benefited …

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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summa...

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2011

the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … employment circumstances of older workers. We find that these "exogenous" reforms can have a very large effect on the labor force …

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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden

Laun, Lisa - 2011

This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence...

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Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan : A Historical Perspective

Oshio, Takashi - 2011

This paper utilizes historical information to explore the relationship between labor force participation of middle aged and old people and the disability program in Japan. In particular, we explore the time series dimension to identify what has determined the trend in disability program...

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Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden

Palme, Marten - 2018

measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series …

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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

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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