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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…

MRRC Director John Laitner previews 2017 key findings

• March 7, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Health and Retirement Study, Life-cycle model, O*NET, Uncategorized

The 2018 Winter Newsletter includes brief summaries of findings from a dozen new MRRC working papers. The projects illustrate two principal themes of our research effort: They make in-depth use of up-to-date data sources to test and quantify our understanding…