Occupational Requirements Survey

The Role of Physical, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Occupational Requirements and Working Conditions on Disability and Retirement

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Occupational Requirements Survey, Retirement

The Role of Physical, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Occupational Requirements and Working Conditions on Disability and Retirement

• January 31, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Occupational Requirements Survey, Retirement

We examine of the role of physical and mental job requirements, as well as hazardous working conditions, on retirement and disability among older individuals in the United States. By linking occupation-level data on job requirements from the Occupational Requirements Survey…

The Role of Physical Job Demands and the Physical Work Environment in Retirement Outcomes

• June 6, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, O*NET, Occupational Requirements Survey, Older workers, Retirement

Worker Functional Abilities, Occupational Requirements, and Job Accommodations: A Close Look at Three Occupations

• June 3, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability, Disability insurance, Occupational Requirements Survey

Talking about job skills: Researchers develop a common language

• May 17, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Disability insurance, Labor force participation, O*NET, Occupational Requirements Survey, Second career

Anu: “I ran a 5k in 37 minutes.” Prasad: “I ate nine muffins as a post-race snack.” Anu and Prasad may be talking about the same 5k race. Or not. It’s hard to tell because they don’t share the same…

The Role of Physical Job Demands and the Physical Work Environment in Retirement Outcomes

• March 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Occupational Requirements Survey

We provide new evidence on the role of physical job demands and the physical work environment on retirement outcomes by linking occupation-level data on job requirements from the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) to individual-level data from the Health and Retirement…

Worker Functional Abilities, Occupational Requirements, and Job Accommodations: A Close Look at Three Occupations

• December 22, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability insurance, Occupational Requirements Survey

This report examines the occupational requirements, physical and mental functioning, and use of accommodations among workers in three key occupations: cashiers, receptionists, and those in nursing fields. These jobs are among the top occupations represented in the work histories of…

The Role of Physical, Cognitive and Interpersonal Occupational Requirements and Working Conditions on Disability and Retirement

• October 15, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Cognition, Disability, Health and Retirement Study, Occupational Requirements Survey

This proposed research project is an expansion of the MRDRC grant UM21-05, where we investigated the role of physical occupational requirements on retirement transitions using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and from the first wave of the…

The Changing Nature of Work

• June 16, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Labor force participation, O*NET, Occupational Requirements Survey, Older workers

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