Project Category: Older workers

This project will examine whether there exist differences in early retirement decisions by race and/or gender during the COVID-19 pandemic. From a macroeconomics perspective, we will analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on potential structural changes in...

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...

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...

This study is a literature review of research related to the characteristics of second careers undertaken after mid-life. There is a significant lack of literature directly on this topic, so we draw substantially from the literatures about retirement, bridge jobs,...

How much does health drive retirement? Recovering this relationship is challenging, since for each retiree we typically observe the age at which they retired given the health path they actually experienced. We cannot directly observe at what age they would have...