Older workers

Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance

• April 21, 2020
• Susan Barnes
• Demographic trends, Disability, Disability insurance, Health, Labor force participation, Older workers, Supplemental Security Income

Firm Willingness to Offer Bridge Employment

• November 4, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Older workers, Second career

While there is some research on the prevalence of bridge employment and partial retirement behavior from the worker perspective, we have no evidence about firms’ ability and willingness to accommodate worker demands for job amenities as they transition into retirement.…

Money isn’t everything—at least for older workers

• October 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Uncategorized, Unretirement

In 2015, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Jeffrey Wenger, and Till von Wachtner fielded two surveys. One asked respondents about their working conditions; the second asked about their preferences for certain job characteristics. The nine working conditions were…

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…

2018 Key Findings

• July 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Affordable Care Act, Behavioral economics, benefit claiming, Cognition, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Health reform, International, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Life-cycle model, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, Payroll taxes, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings, Second career, Social Security, Social Security program communications, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Totalization, Veterans

Understanding Job Transitions and Retirement Expectations Using Stated Preferences for Job Characteristics

• May 23, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Older workers, Second career

Relative Sizes of Age Cohorts and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers

• May 21, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Older workers

Feasibility and Reliability of Automated Coding of Occupation in the Health and Retirement Study

• May 21, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Health and Retirement Study, Labor force participation, Older workers

Is the Affordable Care Act Affecting Retirement Yet?

• May 21, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Health reform, Labor force participation, Older workers

Understanding Job Transitions and Retirement Expectations Using Stated Preferences for Job Characteristics

• April 8, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Unretirement

As the population ages in the United States and other countries, encouraging older individuals to work would help counter increasing dependency ratios and improve national economic outcomes. Extending working lives is likely not simply a function of improving monetary incentives.…