Jobs, Institutions, and Beneficial Retirement

Precarious employment, bad jobs, labor unions, and early retirement.

OBJECTIVES We examined the extent to which involuntary job loss, exposure to "bad jobs," and labor union membership across the life course are associated with the risk of early retirement. METHODS Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a large (N=8,609) sample of men and women who graduated from high school in 1957, we estimated discrete-time event history models for the transition...

Retirement patterns and bridge jobs in the 1990s.

During most of the post-World War II period, American men have been leaving the labor force at earlier and earlier ages. Evidence suggests that this trend has been under way for more than a century. However, in the mid-1980s, this trend came to an abrupt halt. Male labor force participation rates have been flat since 1985, and have actually increased over the past several years. Understanding t...

The Impact of Uncapping of Mandatory Retirement on Postsecondary Institutions

Good jobs, bad jobs, and trade liberalization

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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals’ health within the age range 56-70, we ...