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 mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially …

ways that reflect an expectation of longer work lives. But do older Americans have the health capacity to work longer? This … mortality rate in the past or as much as their younger counterparts in similar health. Using both methods, we estimate that … there is significant additional capacity to work at older ages. We also explore whether there are differences in health …

whether higher employment among older persons might increase youth unemployment and finds no link between the two. The fifth … and sixth volumes focus on the disability insurance (DI) program, finding that changes in DI participation are more … closely linked to DI reforms than to changes in health and that reducing access to DI would raise labor supply. This seventh …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

related to education – health, wealth, occupation, and employment – feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …Education is strongly related to participation in the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program. To explore …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women – can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with …

We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and … individual's asset change between the first and last date of observation, that individual's education and health status when … first observed, and that individual's within-sample changes in health and family composition. We obtain estimates for HRS …

We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and … individual's asset change between the first and last date of observation, that individual's education and health status when … first observed, and that individual's within-sample changes in health and family composition. We obtain estimates for HRS …

We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key … feature of the analysis is the joint estimation of health and mortality to correct for the effect of mortality selection on … observed age-health profiles. The model also allows for heterogeneity in individual health at a point in time and the …

, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms" was intended to set the stage for this current phase.This sixth … the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of …

there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment and whether older individuals are healthy enough to work … the project, we explore this phenomenon of working longer. We document trends in participation and employment and also …