Older workers

Key findings on ethnic, gender, and racial disparities

• May 3, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• COVID-19, Demographic trends, Disability, Disparities, Financial well-being, Health, Older workers

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

Work and Retirement of Older Black and Hispanic Adults

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Health, Older workers, Retirement

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…

Work and Retirement of Older Black and Hispanic Adults

• February 15, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Health, Older workers, Retirement

Growing U.S. income inequality and the aging of Black and Hispanic populations point to greater risks of financial insecurity for older populations in coming years. Research on retirement determinants for Blacks and Hispanics is limited. Using data from the Health…

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Effects of COVID-19 on Job Separation and Financial Precarity

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• COVID-19, Disparities, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Labor force participation, Older workers, poverty

Drawing on Health and Retirement Study data collected in 2021, we will examine racial differences in the COVID-19 pandemic’s consequences on financial security. We hypothesize that, relative to their white counterparts, Black and Hispanic older workers were more likely to…

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

Heterogeneity in Self-Employment and the Transition to Retirement among Older Adults in the United States

• April 13, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Older workers, Self-employment

The fraction of workers who are self-employed increases with age, but the types of self-employment that older workers do and the effects of this work on their well-being is not well understood. This project examines such heterogeneity by considering how…

Is the Adjustment of Social Security Benefits Actuarially Fair, and If So, for Whom?

• April 13, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• benefit claiming, Mortality trends, Older workers, Retirement, Social Security