O*NET

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

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…

Creating a Public Resource: O*NET Job Characteristics Data Set for Use with the Health and Retirement Study and Other Surveys

• January 29, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Health and Retirement Study, Labor force participation, O*NET

Creating a public resource of historical occupational information from the O*NET database linked with survey data in the HRS will allow researchers to better inform policy makers about the impact of long-term exposure to different types of tasks or work…

The Changing Nature of Work

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

The Role of Physical and Cognitive Job Demands on Transitions into Retirement

• December 16, 2020
• Susan Barnes
• Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Occupational Requirements Survey

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS), this project will examine the effects of physical and cognitive job demands, as well as educational requirements, on heterogeneous pathways from full-time work to retirement.…

Latent Work Capacity and Retirement Expectations

• November 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, O*NET

We propose to develop a new method to assess individuals’ latent work capacity and relate it to: (1) their current employment status, and (2) their expectations about their probabilities of working at older ages. To do this, we will use…

Nonmonetary Job Characteristics and Employment Transitions at Older Ages

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Older workers, Retirement

Occupations and Work Characteristics: Effects on Retirement Expectations and Timing

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Retirement

Occupations and Work Characteristics: Effects on Retirement Expectations and Timing

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Retirement

Population aging and attendant pressures on public budgets have spurred considerable interest in understanding factors that influence retirement timing. A range of sociodemographic and economic characteristics have been shown to predict both earlier and later retirement. Less is known about…

Nonmonetary Job Characteristics and Employment Transitions at Older Ages

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Older workers, Retirement

This paper studies to what extent job characteristics such as physical and cognitive demands, use of technologies, responsibility, difficulty, stress, peer pressure, and relations with co-workers are related to full or partial retirement. We study employment transitions and retirement expectations…