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Recessions, Older Workers, and Longevity : How Long are Recessions Good for Your Health?

Coile, Courtney - 2012

also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these … explore potential mechanisms for this health effect. Our results indicate that experiencing a recession in one's late 50s …

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Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio : A Review of the Evidence

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population aging has had a large effect on the overall employment...

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Unemployment, Unsatisfied Demand for Labor, and Compensation Growth in the United States, 1956-1980

Medoff, James L.; Abraham, Katharine G. - 2021

This paper presents two key facts which call into question the value of unemployment rates as barometers of labor market tightness. First, while both unemployment rates and unsatisfied labor demand proxies perform reasonably well on their own in compensation growth equations, in models which...

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