Tag: life expectancy

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The brief’s key findings are: Due to rising life expectancies, many policy experts would encourage people to work longer. However, such changes assume all workers, regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), have experienced similar gains in life expectancy. In fact, between 1979 and 2011, the gain for men in the lowest education quartile was one third…

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Abstract As the gap between retirement resources and needs grows, many researchers have prescribed the antidote of working longer. But this prescription may disadvantage lower socioeconomic status (SES) households because they have shorter lives than higher-SES households, and working longer may increase existing disparities in retirement durations. This paper uses data from the National Longitudina…