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Why Retirement, Social Security, and Age Discrimination Policies Need to Consider the Intersectional Experiences of Older Women

Burn, Ian - 2020

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 …

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Relationship between Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan

Oshio, Takashi; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oishi, Akiko Sato - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

social security reforms. We further estimated the association of ITAX with an individual's decisions concerning retirement … forms on retirement based on the estimated regression parameters. The results showed that a higher ITAX drove individuals …

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages : Evidence from Japan

Usui, Emiko - 2016

This paper explores the extent to which older Japanese can potentially expand the labor supply, based on two analytic approaches: the Milligan-Wise and Cutler et al. methods. First, we examine how much older individuals could work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in...

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Social Security Programs and the Elderly Employment in Japan

Oshio, Takashi - 2018

We examine how the change in the trend of the elderly's employment rates has been associated with changes in incentives of social security and its related programs in Japan since the 1980s. We compute the tax force to retire early, using the institutional parameters and synthetic earnings...

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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?

Neumark, David - 2013

We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on older workers. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy to compare older workers in states with stronger and weaker laws, to their younger counterparts, both...

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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Button, Patrick - 2019

This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...

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Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring

Burn, Ian - 2019

We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes - as reflected in the language used in job ads - and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a previous resume (correspondence study) field experiment...

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Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Neumark, David - 2018

We provide evidence from a field experiment in all 50 states on age discrimination in hiring for retail sales jobs. We relate measured age discrimination - the difference in callback rates between old and young applicants - to state variation in anti-discrimination laws protecting older workers....

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Early Evidence on the Impact of COVID-19 and the Recession on Older Workers

Bui, Truc Thi Mai - 2020

effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession on employment and unemployment rates by age group and sex using Current … Population Survey data. We calculate employment and unemployment rates multiple ways to account for the complicated employment … example, we find that unemployment rates in April 2020 increased to 15.43% for those ages 65 and older, compared to 12.99% for …

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Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan

Oshio, Takashi - 2018

Japan experienced increases in labor force participation (LFP) of the elderly in recent years, as have other advanced countries. In the present study, we overview the employment trend of the elderly in Japan, and examine what factors have contributed to its increase since the early 2000s....

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