Tag: health
Abstract Policy initiatives such as increases in the full retirement age implicitly reduce benefits for early retirement. Yet research suggests that those in physically demanding jobs may be particularly adversely affected by such policies. We examine to what extent physical job demand relates to early retirement decisions in a population of aging manufacturing workers. We follow…
The brief’s key findings are: When economic times are good, deaths in the United States increase. Previous research suggests that a likely culprit is poorer health habits tied to greater job demands. However, the increase in mortality is largely driven by deaths among elderly women in nursing homes. These nursing home deaths may reflect increased…
