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Barriers to later retirement for men
— physical challenges of work and increases in the full retirement age | | Author(s) | Joanne Song McLaughlin, David Neumark |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 40, no 3, March 2018 |
| Publisher | Sage, March 2018 |
| Pages | pp 232-256 |
| Source | http://www.journals.sagepub.com/home/roa |
| Keywords | Unpaid work [elderly] ; Physical capacity ; Postponement [retirement] ; Retirement age ; Longitudinal surveys ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Policy changes intended to delay retirements of older workers and extend their working lives may run up against barriers, owing to rising physical challenges of work as people age. The authors examine whether physical challenges at work influence employment transitions of older male workers in the age range for which public policy is trying to extend work lives, and whether older male workers are able to mitigate these challenges while still remaining employed. They use the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data from 1992 to 2008, a period which includes the first phase of increases in the full retirement age (FRA) from age 65 for those born in 1937 or earlier, to age 65 and 10 months for those born in 1943. The evidence indicates that physical challenges pose a barrier to extending working lives, although some older male workers with physically demanding jobs are able to mitigate these demands - either at new jobs or with the same employer. The findings suggest that greater accommodation of physical challenges faced by older workers would likely increase the success of policies intended to induce later retirement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180316207 A |
| Classmark | GH: BI: G5H: G5A: 3J: 3DQ: 7T |
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