Tag: older workers
Abstract Holding nontraditional jobs – those that provide neither health insurance nor retirement benefits – at younger ages likely hurts retirement security relative to traditional jobs. But nontraditional work might be helpful to those looking to extend their careers for financial reasons. This study uses the Health and Retirement Study to determine the extent to…
Abstract Many people engage in self-employment, yet there exists a dearth of data on these arrangements. This paper addresses this gap by creating a novel dataset of self-employment roles to examine heterogeneity in self-employment arrangements. The approach uses non-public 2016 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data on employer names and locations and narrative descriptions of…
