Labor Supply

Traditional and Nontraditional Earnings: Demographic, Financial, and Beneficiary Patterns

• March 1, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Financial well-being, Labor Supply, Older workers, retirement savings, Self-employment

We use the 2014 and 2018 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to create a schema of earnings that come from employee and nonemployee sources. Traditional earnings are from a job or incorporated business, while nontraditional earnings…

Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Unretirement

Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements

• February 15, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Unretirement

We conduct a series of stated preference experiments to determine the willingness of hiring and human resource managers to pay for certain job attributes. A cross section of U.S. hiring managers were given experimental vignettes about an existing employee or…

Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements

• June 3, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Labor Supply, Totalization

Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements

• February 3, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• International, Labor Supply, Social Security, Totalization

The number of international social security agreements (totalization agreements) signed by the United States is significantly smaller than the number signed by other countries such as Canada and the U.K. This paper estimates the impact of the missing totalization agreements…

Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Economic and Retirement Security

• October 15, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• COVID-19, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Social Security

The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous effects on the United States labor market, disproportionately affecting women’s careers. In this project, we will use survey data collected before and during the pandemic to (1) analyze the impacts of the pandemic and…

Retirement Pensions and Disability Insurance for the 21st Century

• October 15, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Labor Supply, retirement savings, Social Security

This project will estimate the degree of disability risk among the older than 50 population in the United States and England, and evaluate joint reforms of disability insurance and retirement pension programs in a dynamic model of labor supply, social…

Public Pension Design and Household Retirement Decisions: A Comparison of the United States and Germany

• May 28, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• benefit claiming, International, Labor Supply, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, pensions, Retirement

Social Security provides retirement benefits to age-eligible workers and their spouses. Benefits are permanently increased if initial receipt is delayed. For benefits paid to spouses, these incentives reflect a complex interaction of the worker’s and spouse’s earnings histories, benefit claiming…

2019 Key Findings

• May 26, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Disparities, Financial well-being, Interest Rates, International, Labor Supply, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Occupational Requirements Survey, pensions, Totalization

How are older workers’ employment prospects affected when there are fewer younger workers?

• July 17, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Labor Supply, Older workers, Uncategorized

“This [project] is prompted by a question I’ve been asked by many reporters, which is ‘With larger, older cohorts and relatively scarce younger workers, will employers shift to employing more older workers for one reason or another?’” investigator David Neumark…