remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

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 mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially … across countries and over time within countries. At each mortality rate in 2007, if American men between the ages of 55 and …

developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …

new panel data set of 75 cities for each year between 1929 and 1938 combines mortality rates for older age groups with …

, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using … behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most …