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surveys of individuals, life satisfaction in cross-section increases with age beyond retirement into advanced old age. It may … and Retirement Study (HRS) and also find increasing life satisfaction at older ages in cross-section. But based on the …
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females because the trend toward early retirement among males will offset demographic changes. The size of the labor force …. Fourth, declining ages of retirement among males can be reversed by changes in social security policy. A decline in real … benefits and increase in the age of entitlement are likely to have the largest effects on raising the retirement age …
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sustainability of the organization. This paper examines employer responses to workforce aging including changes retirement policies …, modification in working conditions, the adoption of phased retirement plans, and reforming other employee benefits …
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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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In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …
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We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college-educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from a potential employer. First, the results show no...
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This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …
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When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and gender of their employees in job ads. We study the interaction of advertised requests for age and gender on one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that firms' explicit gender requests shift dramatically away from...
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We explore the effects of disability discrimination laws on hiring of older workers. A concern with anti-discrimination laws is that they may reduce hiring by raising the cost of terminations and - in the specific case of disability discrimination laws - raising the cost of employment because of...
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The Medicare trust funds face huge prospective deficits by the end of this decade.This paper discusses trends in six areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force participation, income, and living arrangements. Among the...
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