Tag: Claiming Social Security Benefits
The brief’s key findings are: Over the past 25 years, the average retirement age for U.S. workers has been rising, a trend that should align with when people first claim Social Security. But the percentage of all initial claimants who are age 62 shows little change until recently. A better metric to capture claiming behavior…
Abstract We use Health and Retirement Study data linked to the Department of Labor’s O*Net classification system to examine the relationship between lifetime exposure to occupational demands and retirement behavior. We consistently found that both non-routine cognitive analytic and non-routine physical demands were associated with worse health, earlier labor force exit, and increased use of…
