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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...

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The Labor Force Participation of Older Men in Canada

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2018

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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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

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …

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Social Security and Retirement Programs Around the World : The Capacity to Work at Older Ages – Introduction and Summary

Coile, Courtney - 2016

Retirement Around the World. The project compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries and uses differences in their … retirement program provisions to explore the effect of SS on retirement and related questions. The first three phases of this … project document that: 1) incentives for retirement from SS are strongly correlated with labor force participation rates …

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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

Gruber, Jonathan - 2010

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …

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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement - Introduction and Summary

Coile, Courtney - 2014

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI programs. The …

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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : Working Longer – Introduction and Summary

Coile, Courtney - 2018

Retirement Around the World. This project, which compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries, was launched in the mid … project document that social security program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly … provisions and their effects on retirement as well as potential obstacles to promoting work at older ages, including whether …

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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work Across Countries

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2013

Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...

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How Household Portfolios Evolve after Retirement : The Effect of Aging and Health Shocks

Coile, Courtney - 2010

In this paper, we study how the portfolios of elderly U.S. households evolve after retirement, using data from the … Health and Retirement Study (HRS). In particular, we investigate the influence of aging and health shocks on a household …

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How is Economic Hardship Avoided by Those Retiring Before the Social Security Entitlement Age?

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2012

retirement benefit entitlement. One concern that arises is how those who are not working before reaching entitlement age are able … entitlement in the United States using data drawn from the Health and Retirement Study. The major finding is that four out of five …. Reaching the early retirement entitlement age at 62 also has a significant impact on poverty avoidance …

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