The Bureau of Labor Statistics introduced the increment-decrement model of labor force activity in Bulletin 2135 in 1982. A subsequent BLS publication, Bulletin 2254, in 1986 also used the increment-decrement methodology. Arguably, worklife expectancies have been the most important progeny of...

In a recent paper in this Journal, James Ciecka, Thomas Donley, and Jerry Goldman (2000) published work-life expectancies based on a Markov process model using labor force data for 1997-98. At the time work was done on that paper, work-lives were calculated to age 75; but the published paper...

This paper provides a new set of work life tables for 1994-95 based on the same Markov process model of labor force activity used to calculate work life expectancies for 1992-93 in order to assess the stability of those estimates. Our findings indicate that there is little change between the...